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5 May 2011. He showed the court order. The prison guards were acting correctly and did
not beat detainees.
Kondra Mirush, from Albania, sitting in a wheelchair, was sentenced in 2009 by the
Komotini Court of first instance to 88 years for trafficking human beings. He did not allege
any ill-treatment.
Ananiadis Odiseas, a Greek citizen of Georgian origin, was convicted and sentenced to ten
years for robbery. He did not allege any beatings.
Hardid Brahalilai, aged 23, from Albania, was arrested for alleged drug dealing by the
port police in Kavala in June 2010. Upon arrest he was heavily beaten with fists and a
flashlight. He was then brought to Kavala Port Police Station where he was ill-treated by
officers of the police and CID in order to obtain the name of the drug supplier. He was
handcuffed to a chair and beaten successively. A tape recorder was smashed over his head.
He was humiliated and insulted. He was then transferred to the Kavala CID where he was
detained for one month. At the CID, he was regularly insulted and humiliated by the
officers. Then he was transferred to Komotini Prison for detention on remand. He described
the treatment and conditions in the prison as adequate but complained about the
discrimination against Albanians regarding access to a workplace.
A male detainee, aged 29 and a Greek citizen, was serving a 22 year sentence and has been
held in three other prisons in Greece before coming to this prison where he has been for the
past two months. The conditions in the four prisons he had been in have been very
different. Here, most people have not been convicted and many are concerned about when
they will be tried. The food is better than in other places. He could buy food and cook it
himself. He is able to exercise. He was in a chamber with 18 other people, and there used to
be 23 people. The toilets are in the chamber without a closed door. There is a common area
for showers and detainees can access them any time before lockdown. He has not been
beaten and has not seen the guards ill – treating anyone. He had family visits which are
conducted through a screen.
Ammak Al-Adhami, aged 42, Iraqi national who had refugee status in Sweden. In July
2010 he tried to visit his family in Iraq by flying to Germany and driving a car but he was
stopped at the Greece-Turkey border. He has been in this prison for 2 months. Upon arrest,
he was first taken to Alexandroupoli Police Station where there were 40 people in the cell.
It was severely overcrowded but the police did not beat him. The conditions in this prison
are a little better. There were 28 people in the chamber. They were visited by the doctor but
there was no medicine. There was access to the phone.
Merjan Ognian, aged 32, from Bulgaria, has been in this prison for three months awaiting
trial. He was arrested in May 2010 for smuggling people and spent the first three months at
Komotini Police Station. There, the police were verbally abusive, shouting a lot but he did
not receive any beatings. In this prison there are thirty people in his cell for a maximum
capacity of fifteen. The toilets were broken and there were cockroaches everywhere.
Adil Shawkat, aged 39, from Iraq, was arrested in 2009 and held at Alexandroupoli Police
Station for 20 days and then transferred to this prison. He was convicted for 20 years for
smuggling people. At the police station he was beaten by four or five police officers with
the handle of a pistol and a flashlight. He had not been beaten in this prison. In his cell there
were 27 to 30 people with only 24 beds. He had access to a phone but no access to a lawyer
because he did not have any money.
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