A/HRC/16/52/Add.4 Uhianitse Pochokki, from Georgia, has asylum in France and visited his mother in Athens without documents. He was arrested in the bus. The Georgian consulate has not been informed about their arrest. Alexandroupoli University Hospital: Psychiatric Clinic Visited on 14 October 2010 The Special Rapporteur was received by Maria Samakouri, Deputy Director and psychiatrist who had a good awareness of issues of ill-treatment in psychiatric settings. The clinic had no close wing but keeping voluntary and involuntary patients in the same facilities. The clinic had 22 beds in one or two-bed rooms. Five persons were held involuntarily and one person was a irregular migrant transferred from Venna detention center and guarded by a police officer. The clinic was clean and adequately kept. There was a common room with television and an adjacent outside area. At the time of the visit a group of young immigrants was brought by a police car from Feres for a child psychiatrist test. Individual cases A male detainee, aged 23 from Iran, had been brought to Alexandropouli Hospital one day ago because he fainted at the Migration Detention Center in Venna. He was examined by doctors and expected to be released on the same day. The detainee was previously held at Venna for 38 days. He reported that police officers there did not care for them. Eleven days after being brought to Venna, the detainee saw a fellow detainee having a heart attack. Despite the continuous requests by detainees, the officers refused to take care of the fellow detainee right away. After some time had passed, they came and gave him a pill. Next morning the fellow detainee was picked up by an ambulance that brought him to a hospital for check-up. He was brought back to Venna shortly after, and his health problems continued. The detainee complained that the cells at Venna are infested with mice. They jump on the detainees during the night which is why many detainees have problems sleeping. The detainee had not slept for three nights in a row which he said was confirmed by the doctor at Venna. Feres Border Guard Station Visited on 14 October 2010 The Special Rapporteur was received by Police Chief Spyridou Daskaris, a particularly knowledgeable officer who showed great professionalism and care for the detainees, and acknowledged the difficulty of his task. He had provided the detainees with the possibility to access a small outside yard but his staff was completely overwhelmed by the situation. The Border Guard Station had two cells with 14 mattresses each, and thus a capacity of 28. At the time of the visit there were 123 detainees in the cells, 75 persons in the left cell, 21 in the right cell and 27, arrested the same morning, in a corridor next to the right room. The latter were said to be processed and brought to Soufli. According to the police chief this was an unprecedented high number caused by the arrest of 170 persons the day before. Each cell had separate toilets and showers and an adjacent outside yard. The cells were in a very poor state, in particular the cell to the left. The cells were dark and dirty. There was much trash on the floor and the cells were reportedly not being cleaned. The left cell was very wet due to water entering through the roof. They had an additional 14 mattresses spread out on the floor, many of which were very dirty and wet due to the water on the floor. Several detainees had to sleep on the floor. The detainees were only provided with thin blankets and no additional clothes and thus complained about the cold. The washrooms 39

Select target paragraph3

Connect to a paragraph
Connect to an entity
Disable highlights
Add to table of contents