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Greece: Anti-torture committee criticises poor treatment of detained foreign nationals

The Council of Europe’s European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) acknowledges significant on-going challenges that the Greek authorities face to deal with the high number of foreign nationals arriving in the country, but based on a visit in April last year, it received yet more credible allegations of physical ill-treatment by the police, including slaps, punches, kicks and baton blows.

In this new CPT report, published along with a Greek government response, the allegations related primarily to detention places in the Evros region (the Fylakio Pre-removal Centre, Fylakio Reception and Identification Centre (RIC) and Tychero Police and Border Guard Station) and on Lesvos (Moria Pre-removal Centre). The CPT recommends that Greece take “vigorous steps” to stamp out ill-treatment of foreign nationals deprived of their liberty by the police (see also the executive summary of the report).

Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) Strasbourg 19 February 2019
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