the Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture,[169] suggests that the conditions in PRDCs across Greece are inhumane and likely in variance with Article 3 ECHR.[170] I Have Rights is concerned that the PRDC on Samos will be no different to those across Greece, risking people being unlawfully detained and at risk of inhuman treatment. It is therefore likely, in violation of Article 5 and 3 ECHR respectively, that those detained in Samos PRDC will be subjected to arbitrary detention and inhuman treatment. It is also possible to assume that having a de jure detention facility operational within the CCAC will have a negative impact on applicants residing in the general population of the CCAC, who, already living in a prisonlike structure, and having themselves been subjected to forms of restriction and/or deprivation of liberty, will be accommodated within the same complex as a detention centre. It is plausible that applicants will fear that they themselves will be detained within the PRDC, perhaps themselves having been released from the PRDC into the general population. As such, its opening will likely further contribute to the prison-like infrastructure of the CCAC. [169]Committee for the Prevention of Torture. 2018. Preliminary observations made by the delegation of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) which visited Greece from 10 to 19 April 2018. Available here. [170] Human Rights Watch. 2018. Greece: Inhumane Conditions at Land Border. Available here. Page 50

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