Recommendations (A/HRC/16/52/Add.4) Situation during visit (See: A/HRC/16/52/Add.4) border guard stations of Feres and Soufli. (i) Take measures to improve the treatment and standard of care of irregular migrants and refugees held in all detention facilities, including legislative provisions to ensure that those arrested while trying to enter or leave the country on false documents are not detained for a prolonged period. Information received in the reporting period There have been reported cases of deaths and alleged abuse in the care centre, including news reports of beatings and two deaths in the span of a few days in March 2011. Reportedly, investigation has been launched by the Prosecutor‘s Office but no information has been made available on the status of these investigations. Non-governmental sources: Reportedly, at the end of 2010, up to 1,000 documented migrants, who had recently crossed from Turkey into Greece, were held in extremely overcrowded detention conditions that failed to provide minimum hygienic standards for detainees. The number of migrants detained exceeds the capacity limits of some facilities, including in Venna and Fylakio detention centres and Tychero police station detention cells, Feres police station detention cells, and Soufli police station detention cells. Reportedly, guards at detention centers beat or kick detainees for random reasons, including for requesting water and for being late for the headcount. Since taking office in October 2009, the Government has made the issue of detention of irregular migrants and refugees a priority and is planning a substantive reform of the asylum system and migration management. 93 A/HRC/19/61/Add.3 (j) Enact minimum operating standards for special detention facilities for aliens in compliance with international human rights law. (k) Re-negotiate the readmission agreement with Turkey out of concern that Turkey is not complying with minimum standards for the detention of irregular migrants and failing to protect refugees from being summarily returned to Iran, Iraq, or the Syrian Arab Republic.