A/HRC/16/52/Add.4 and toilets were filthy and run-down. In my opinion, the showers in the right cell were functioning but the detainees had no soap to clean themselves. Due to the unforeseen number of detainees there was not enough food for everyone leading to fights among detainees during the distribution. The cleaning was outsourced by the Prefecture to a private cleaning company and the cleaning ladies were too afraid to enter the cells. Individual cases M.E., from Afghanistan, aged 17, and other unaccompanied minors (4 boys aged 15, and 3 of 17), arrived three days earlier in Greece and went voluntarily to the police. The police officers were neither good nor bad, they did not use force. In Afghanistan, they had paid to the smugglers 4000 USD per person. They had walked 12 hours through the mountains from Iran to Turkey and another 6 hours through the jungle from Turkey to Greece. His cousin, aged 32, lives in Athens. He wishes to go to Sweden where he has a friend. S.K. and K.W., both aged 17, from Iran, said that the border police registered them as aged 18, therefore adults. They had been detained in the facility for twenty days. They were being taken care of by other Iranians in the cell. The Police Chief gave them the fax number of the stations and told them to have their families send documents to prove their age. They were allowed to call their families to convey this information but since then have had no contact with them. They crossed the river and were put into a car by smugglers; the police chased them and some people escaped out of the car but they were in the back and could not jump out. The police car hit their car, and they thought they were going to die. The ones who escaped were caught and they were all taken to Komotini Police Station. A.R., aged 27, from Iran, had been detained in the facility for 15 days. Before that he spent two months in Komotini Police Station where he had surrendered himself to the authorities. He also spent three days in Komotini Hospital because he was very sick and fainted. He had many headaches due to numerous beatings by police in Iran. He had seen the doctor in this facility and was given a pill but it was not sufficient. He is not drinking the water because he said it made him ill. Seven minors, aged 15 or 17, from Afghanistan, had been detained in the facility for two days after they surrendered themselves at the bridge. They had not suffered any police brutality but the conditions in the facility were terrible. They had not been allowed to make a telephone call. A male detainee, aged 24, from Palestine, has fled persecution and was detained at the border guard station for almost two months. He and his friends from Palestine wanted to make an asylum claim but cannot communicate with the officers due to a lack of interpreters. He complained that the officers are very overworked and stressed. He shared the mattress with three others. The food was given out by detainees and there were a lot of fights, leaving some people without food in the end. A male detainee from Somalia had been detained for 7 days and complained that he had to sleep on the bare wet and cold floor. Mersinidi Migration Detention Center, Chios Island Visited on 15 October 2010 The Special Rapporteur was received by Yorgo Kakoussios, Deputy Chief of the migration detention center, employed by the local prefecture. The center situated a few kilometres outside of the town was comprised of 10 metal containers with 12 beds each, a small kitchen, toilet, showers and air conditioning. It had a capacity of 120 and at the time of the visit held 58 detainees. Two or three years ago, when migrants to Greece mainly arrived via 40