1/on 13 Dec @OHCHR_Europe Working Group on #ArbitraryDetention gave its preliminary findings on #Greece after visiting facilities for refugees and migrants. It noted challenges ‘due to the widespread detention in the (...) migration system which must end’ bit.ly/2PutJC3
@OHCHR_Europe 2/2.257 asylum seekers are in pre-removal detention in #Greece. Among the 'serious problems' affecting them the Working Group points to the failure to assess the necessity of detention, its excessive length, shortcomings in information, language and legal assistance #Refugeesgr
@OHCHR_Europe 3/ Preliminary findings confirm @amnesty concerns on the rights of #Refugeesgr, especially with the new asylum law depriving them of core safeguards in detention, removing judicial review of initial detention and extending the maximum periods of detention bit.ly/2EoB6oo
@OHCHR_Europe @amnesty 4/Working Group also talks of the 257 unaccompanied #children currently in ‘unacceptable conditions’ in protective custody in detention centres or police stations, where some were found held together with adults @AmnestyGreece visited some of them recently bit.ly/34xCJL0
@OHCHR_Europe @amnesty @AmnestyGreece 5/ @amnesty is pleased that the Group urged #Greece to ‘put an immediate end to pushbacks’ at Evros and investigate any wrongdoing, adding to the many observes denouncing this practice. The Evros route becomes more dangerous by the minute for #refugeesgr vice.com/gr/article/a35…
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