Situation during visit
(See: A/HRC/16/52/Add.4)
a Bill had yet to be submitted to
Parliament.
Information received in the reporting period
The Special Secretary of the Ministry, by
circular 51271/30 May 2011, asked the
administrations of the detention facilities to
create and regularly update a relevant
Prisoner Injury Register. This register
records injuries identified by medical
examination to a. new prisoners, b. persons
already detained in prisons, with explicit
reference to the type of injury and the
reported cause, as well as the date and time
of examination. When the reported cause of
injury is violence or suspected violence, the
administration of the detention facility must
notify the Supervising Prosecutor and the
General Directorate of Penitentiary Policy
of the Ministry of Justice, Transparency and
Human rights
Non-governmental sources: Asylum
seekers, among them numerous
unaccompanied children, who have spent as
much as 50 days in squalid conditions, were
reportedly discouraged by Greek detention
guards from lodging claims.
Although the Greek Government has
pledged to hold perpetrators of violence
accountable, in practice there has been little
evidence of meaningful steps towards this
goal. There is a continued climate of
impunity and widespread reluctance by
victims to file complaints due to an absence
of a safe complaints mechanisms,
insufficient numbers of interpreters, and a
lack of trust in authorities.
There is no independent complaints
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Recommendations
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