Special reports

31/12/2016 - Special report
- National Preventive Mechanism Against Torture and Ill-treatment - Annual Special Report 2016

This report reflects the National Preventive Mechanism’s operation in 2016, both with regard to its visits and on-site inspections of places of detention, as well as its national and international presence, and includes interventions and recommendations regarding current policies, as well as its networking and collaborations with corresponding authorities.
From: The Greek Ombudsman
09/10/2016 - Special report
- Special report on return of third country nationals

The Greek Ombudsman, Andreas Pottakis, publicized on September 29, 2017, his special report titled “Return of third country nationals - 2016”. In his third annual report on the issue the Ombudsman notes that the number of forced returns operations has decreased, in 2016, whereas the number of detainees has increased. The Ombudsman also notes the lack of adequate and timely information provided to third country nationals regarding the removal operation as well as the wrongful use of handcuffs as a standard procedure without individual assessment of its necessity. At a European level, the Ombudsman observes the problems in managing mixed flows of both migrants and asylum seekers along the south east borders of the EU and calls for the strengthening of an external control mechanism to monitor the return operations.
From: The Greek Ombudsman

The Greek Ombudsman Human Rights