The ELAS choice to put the 9 Egyptian survivors of the shipwreck of Pylos regardless of their acquittal on Tuesday 21/05 by the Three-member Felony Enchantment Courtroom of Kalamata.
See additionally: Shipwreck in Pylos: The 9 accused are free – The courtroom’s choice
The Greek police, exhausting each risk of arbitrariness, trampling and crushing the basic rights of the 9 Egyptians for justice, underneath the pretext that there’s a threat of their escaping as a result of they lack everlasting lodging, positioned them underneath administrative detention
See additionally: Amnesty Worldwide’s annual report on Greece: Pylos, police brutality, wiretapping and a number of rights violations
Thus, the 9 Egyptians didn’t dwell a single second of freedom after the courtroom dismissed the costs in opposition to them for the Pylos wreck.
The courtroom determined to launch them, citing lack of jurisdiction, because the catastrophe occurred in worldwide waters. It’s price noting that the case had dragged the nation internationally, attracting the investigative curiosity of international media.
Learn additionally: Pylos Shipwreck: Report – “kolafos” by the European Ombudsman
Assertion -Kolafos of the protection attorneys.
On the event of this improvement, the protection legal professionals of the 9 survivors of the shipwreck issued a joint assertion requesting the lifting of their detention.
They themselves level out that this choice is in full contradiction to Greek laws and Union regulation, for the reason that formal and important situations for imposing administrative detention usually are not met of their individual. Moreover, of their assertion they discuss in regards to the inhumane method by which the 9 survivors had been handled by the home media violating the presumption of innocence.
The whole assertion particularly states:
STATEMENT OF DEFENSE ATTORNEYS FOR THE NINE SURVIVORS OF THE PYLO WRECK WHO WERE ACQUIRED
Our principals, 9 survivors of the shipwreck off Pylos, had been unjustly detained for eleven months in jail accused of significant crimes and stigmatized by the mainstream media, which from the primary second not solely didn’t respect the presumption of innocence, however printed their photographs even by way of the hospital, with the intention of disorienting public opinion and protecting up the true causes for the deadly wreck. The objective, additional, was to serve the narrative, about repression of these accountable for unlawful immigration and the shipwrecks that happen within the Greek SAR.
Plainly the acquittal of our principals by the Tripartite Felony Appeals Courtroom doesn’t serve the above targets. For that reason, the Greek state, as an alternative of constructing amends for the unjust deprivation of their freedom for a lot of months, by offering psychological help and all means for easy restoration to their free dwelling and integration into society, insists on treating them with cruelty and inhumanity.
As an alternative of being launched, they’re being held administratively! For eleven months, we have now been watching how victims of this wreck, just like the 9 administrative detainees now, are continually re-victimized, both by their unjust momentary detention or by their unjust and vindictive administrative detention.
The choice to impose administrative detention on our principals is in direct battle with Greek laws and the Regulation of the Union as they don’t meet the formal and important situations for its imposition. The choice to detain has no foundation in regulation, it’s imposed utterly arbitrarily and abusively, and our principals ought to obtain the identical therapy as the remainder of the survivors of the shipwreck, a class of susceptible individuals in accordance with the prevailing laws, whose detention was not even contemplated by the beginnings, past the primary days. The appliance for worldwide safety of the 9 has already been registered and there’s no formal or substantive purpose for his or her detention.
In view of the above, and in compliance with the selections of the Greek Courts, we invite
● The Ministry of Citizen Safety to make sure that the competent police authorities chorus from arbitrary arrest and revoke the issued unlawful selections of their administrative detention
● The Ministry of Immigration and Asylum to make sure that nationwide laws and Union Regulation are applied and that our principals benefit from the rights supplied for within the present laws, together with authorized keep pending the examination of their utility, entry to reception situations and safety in opposition to arbitrary detention.
● UNHCR to not permit the Greek authorities to show our principals, who sought safety within the nation, to severe violations of elementary rights and to a different apply of arbitrary detention
● The Unbiased Authority of the Citizen’s Advocate to intervene throughout the scope of his competence and to ensure the appliance of the prevailing laws to the principals by the competent authorities.
We demand the lifting of the detention of the 9 survivors of the wreck.
The Protection Advocates
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