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telephone number of the Special Rapporteur. They also said that another guy had been
beaten because he had asked to use the toilet outside the official hours.
E.A., aged 38, from Egypt, arrived in 2006 in Greece and stayed here for one year. In 2007
he went to France where he lived until 2010. In August 2010 the French police arrested him
for lack of papers. He spent 22 days in prison. They could not send him back to Egypt as
the Embassy did not wish to accept him. On 13 September 2010 he was sent to Greece. He
could enter the country but did not find work here. He decided to go back to Egypt and
bought an Egyptian Air ticket for 7 October from Athens to Cairo (A 3930: he showed his
ticket). He checked in with his Egyptian passport and his luggage was sent to Cairo. But
since his Greek residence permit had expired he had to pay a fine. The procedure took so
long that he missed his flight for 10 minutes. The police told him he could buy another
Olympic Airways ticket for the evening of the same day for 181.15 €. He did not have the
money, and they brought him to the Airport Police Station. He was very angry about this
unfair treatment and complained about a problem in his eye which the forensic expert
examined, concluding that it was a chronic situation that did not need an urgent
intervention, but that justified, however, medical attention..
Wing for women and children
Two female detainees from Somalia, aged 21 and 28, and the baby of one of them, 6
months old, came to Greece via Turkey. They were arrested without violence, and brought
to a border guard station. After some days, they were brought to Athens by bus after paying
50 Euros each to the police officers for the ticket. They were left alone at the railway
station. They went to a park to sleep and heard that in Omonia Square they could find help
and a job. One says she did things with men for money in order to buy fake passports and
food for the baby. They were arrested three days earlier at the airport while trying to leave
the country and go to France with these fake documents. On Thursday they were brought to
court but could not understand anything since there was no interpretation and signed
documents. The mother of the child was in a terrible state of anxiety since her child was
very sick but she was denied access to a doctor and had not received any medicines. The
forensic expert confirmed that the baby had strong fever and needed to see a doctor. The
mother added that she had received only one diaper since her arrival three days earlier. The
baby did not have toys, and they did not have anything else than their bed. They were both
crying a lot in reason of their situation and the uncertainty of the length of the detention as
well as the next steps to go to France. They felt put aside by the men they met in Omonia
Square, and stated that as women they had even fewer chances to find a job, or understand
how the system works since their possibilities to integrate with a group of people were low.
They both complained about the racism of the officers and of the people they have met
since their arrival in Europe.
A female detainee, aged 19, from Afghanistan, and her mother, have been detained for
three days. They had been handcuffed and had been sent to court but there was no
interpreter so they were brought back to the facility. Before that they had been held in
Soufli Border Guard Station for three days. There were fourteen people being held in one
large room. There were two showers and two toilets that smelled. They wanted bleach for
the toilets to clean them. They did not have toilet paper or soap and shampoo. They said
that they received food but could not eat it because they thought it was pork.
A female detainee, aged 30, from Somalia, was seven months pregnant. She had been
detained in the facility for 10 days and had not been seen a doctor. She was having light
contractions and pain. She was handcuffed when first detained. She had to pay to get water.
She said she could not eat the food because she thought it was pork.
A female detainee from Belarus, aged 43, and a female detainee from Russia, aged 23.
The Russian woman was arrested at the airport when she attempted, together with her
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