Special purpose deprivation of liberty facilities
I.4.2 Asylum and return facilities
Visits made
Sunlight
§378 AR 2014
and voiced call
systems
§88 AR 2014
177. Over the period covered by this Report, 2 follow-up visits have been
made to asylum and return facilities at Barcelona-El Prat Airport (Barcelona)
and Terminals 1 and 4S at Adolfo Suárez-Barajas Airport (Madrid), to check
whether the shortcomings detected in previous years have been remedied.
178. We noted that refurbishment works have still not been completed in
Room 3 of Adolfo Suárez-Barajas Airport in Madrid, which Aeropuertos
Españoles y Navegación Aérea (AENA) had committed to, in order to provide
a sunlit outdoor space where detainees are relocated, expected to remain
for longer than 72 hours, as well as asylum seekers. The DGP replied that,
insofar as possible and if there are sufficient resources, these persons are
transferred to a sunlit area that is available.
The Barcelona-El Prat Airport does not consider it necessary to have sunlit
facilities. The DGP has told us that providing natural light to the rooms, and
adjusting them to allow time outdoors, would require works of such a scope
as to exceed AENA’s airport management, which has a limited budget.
Nevertheless, we have been informed that the installation of voiced call
systems inside the rooms is under study.
Video
surveillance
§380 AR 2014
Isolation
§381 AR 2014
Extended
detentions
§381 AR 2014
Leisure material
and outside
children’s area
179. A Suggestion was made to the DGP in order to install a video
surveillance camera in the provisional separation room of Terminal TI, Adolfo
Suárez-Barajas Airport in Madrid. The management centre has told us that
AENA was going to be asked to install the system, as the body in charge of
managing all airport installations.
180. The airport’s asylum and return facilities have a register book to enter
all cases involving separation or isolation.
181. We have ascertained that all extended detentions are entered into this
register, adopted by the court, for persons remaining on the facilities for
longer than 72 hours, awaiting a return.
182. There are plans to provide leisure material in the rooms where persons
are detained at Adolfo Suárez-Barajas Airport in Madrid, but the outside
children’s play area still needs to be refurbishment, in the T1 detainee
room.
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