Enable detained migrants to freely access their own mobile telephone by informing them of the restrictions concerning the camera feature and of the penalties should such rules fail to be followed. Define the "security problems" potentially associated with Internet use in detention centres for illegal immigrants and authorise this use with restrictions that are strictly in proportion to the risks that will have been identified. 4.1.3 Activities The CGLPL had recommended that activities be organised to stave off the sense of boredom that prevails in detention centres for illegal immigrants The Minister of the Interior does not believe that it is always possible to provide for such means owing to the layout of premises or a budget shortfall. He does, however, explain that associations or staff at the centres can donate board games. "Goodwill" gestures are of course always a help in that they strengthen the relationship between people deprived of their liberty and society as a whole. They should not be relied on solely to ensure the basic minimum that is the State's responsibility, however: minimal activity guaranteed to each migrant is necessary, and this is even more so if the immigration detention time-limit is going to be extended. This question must therefore be addressed by a fully-fledged policy and should not be left to local or private initiatives which, whilst often beneficial, are always optional. See to the systematic and controlled setup of the necessary amenities for providing migrants held in detention centres with activities. 4.1.4 Right to health The CGLPL had recommended installing specific letterboxes for detained migrants to be able to communicate confidentially with the medical unit of the detention centre for illegal immigrants and setting up systematic consultations upon migrants' arrival so as to screen for contagious diseases and provide everyone with the appropriate medical surveillance. There has been no progress on these subjects since the recommendation. Moreover, the Minister of the Interior concedes that the interministerial working group formed to develop the health system in detention centres for illegal immigrants has not convened since 2015. The CGLPL can only urge the Government to resume efforts in this regard. Revive the interministerial working group formed to develop the health system in detention centres for illegal immigrants, particularly the need for direct and confidential contact between detained migrants and medical teams, the screening for contagious diseases and the need for personalised medical surveillance. 4.1.5 Rights associated with measures coming to an end The CGLPL had recommended that the procedure whereby foreigners denied entry at the French borders are swiftly returned, and particularly the time-limit within which it can take place, be stipulated in the Code for Entry and Residence of Foreigners and Right of Asylum (CESEDA). The Minister of the Interior claims that this measure does not come under the purview of the General Directorate of the French national police force, which cannot be considered a valid answer to the substance of the CGLPL's recommendation. This recommendation is therefore upheld. Stipulate in the CESEDA the procedure whereby foreigners denied entry at the French borders are swiftly returned (without being placed in a waiting area), with indication of the time-limit within which this can take place. 64

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