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. 113

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