A/HRC/16/52/Add.4 Athens. He could not contact her, having no access to a phone. He was very worried about her, knowing that she has nothing and sleeps on the streets. He complained about the cold. He was not provided with any clothes or shoes and was barefoot. He had stomach pain but the doctor only provided him with two tablets that had no effect. A.A., aged 30, from Iran, was arrested in September at the Greece-Turkey border and detained at Feres Border Guard Station for twelve days. Upon arrest he was beaten with a baton on the legs. He was then taken to Alexandroupoli Police Station before the Chief of Police who issued him a deportation order and an interim detention order. He had been detained in the Venna facility for eight days and had not been beaten. Every three days detainees get one hour of exercise. They receive food three times a day but it is often mouldy. There are no blankets and everyone is cold. The cell is full of mice and cockroaches. He used the phone by buying an expensive phone card from the guards which was 4 Euros per minute. M.A.A and M.T, aged 16, from Iraq, had spent twelve days in the facility. They were first detained at Feres Border Guard Station. They have not been able to call their family. Neither had documentation and were not able to prove their ages so they were not identified as minors. There were 36 people in the cell and this number had stayed constant. George Kasharian, aged 25, from Palestine, said the police registered him as being from Iraq. He had been detained in the facility for 90 days, and was here the longest of all. Hassam Mohammed, aged 28, from Palestine, lost all his family in Palestine and had one brother in France, who he was trying to join. He was first detained at Feres Border Guard Station and had been in this facility for one month. Police registered him as being from Syria. He said the police did this so they can deport him back to Turkey. He received a deportation order. He was able to understand what it said because he saw an information note in Arabic that described what the official document said. Wael Sayed Ramadam, aged 18, from Palestine, had epilepsy and a problem with his heart. He was detained in the facility for seven days. He requested medical attention and medical forensic expert who examined him confirmed this need. Abdau Hassan, aged 22, from Palestine, had been detained in the facility for 15 days. Police documented him as being from Syria and gave him a deportation order. He said he was asthmatic (the forensic medical doctor could not confirm this allegation). Cell 4 Group interview of 21 Georgians and 2 Chechens, who complained primarily about the conditions of detention and the lack of medical treatment. Six detainees have hepatitis C, and one had a heart attack and problems with his prostate, without receiving proper medical assistance. They also have not been informed about the reasons and the length of their detention. In addition, they do not know what consequences an asylum application would have. Nobody was beaten by the prison guards, but they are rough and often threaten and verbally assault them. There is only cold shower and the possibility for one telephone call per day. They are only allowed in shifts to go out to the open space, which means that they are outside their cells only every third day for roughly one hour. The director, although mentioning detainees can stay out about 2 hours every third day, confirmed this policy and tried to justify it with security reasons and lack of staff. Six Georgians prefer to go back to Georgia rather than staying in these inhuman conditions any longer. Alexi Tsoulelskiri, from Georgia, has been granted asylum in Austria and had lived there for four and a half years before he went to Georgia to visit his sick mother. On his way back via Turkey, he crossed the border to Greece by foot and was arrested. 38

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