Situation during visit (See: A/HRC/16/52/Add.4) a Bill had yet to be submitted to Parliament. Information received in the reporting period The Special Secretary of the Ministry, by circular 51271/30 May 2011, asked the administrations of the detention facilities to create and regularly update a relevant Prisoner Injury Register. This register records injuries identified by medical examination to a. new prisoners, b. persons already detained in prisons, with explicit reference to the type of injury and the reported cause, as well as the date and time of examination. When the reported cause of injury is violence or suspected violence, the administration of the detention facility must notify the Supervising Prosecutor and the General Directorate of Penitentiary Policy of the Ministry of Justice, Transparency and Human rights Non-governmental sources: Asylum seekers, among them numerous unaccompanied children, who have spent as much as 50 days in squalid conditions, were reportedly discouraged by Greek detention guards from lodging claims. Although the Greek Government has pledged to hold perpetrators of violence accountable, in practice there has been little evidence of meaningful steps towards this goal. There is a continued climate of impunity and widespread reluctance by victims to file complaints due to an absence of a safe complaints mechanisms, insufficient numbers of interpreters, and a lack of trust in authorities. There is no independent complaints A/HRC/19/61/Add.3 104 Recommendations (A/HRC/16/52/Add.4)

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