27 | PROTECTING STATELESS PERSONS FROM ARBITRARY DETENTION IN MALTA 63 UNHCR, Handbook on protection of Stateless persons, 2014, para. 122. 64 Interview with the Assistant Refugee Commissioner, 2 June 2015. 65 Meeting with the Minister of Home Affairs and National Security 31st of July 2015, and The Times of Malta, Signing stateless UN codes ‘is a risk’, 13 July 2015, available at http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20150713/local/signin g-stateless-un-codes-is-a-risk.576346 66 See comments made by the Ministry for Home Affairs and National Security in the context of its transposition of the EU recast Reception Conditions Directive. 67 Interview with the assistant Refugee Commissioner, 2 June 2015. 68 For more details, see the references provided under the section on detention conditions. 69 Louled Massoud v. Malta, App no. 24340/08 (ECtHR 27 October 2010), available at http://hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng?i=001-100143; Aden Ahmed v. Malta App no. 55352/12 (ECtHR 9 December 2013), available at http://hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng?i=001-122894; Suso Musa v. Malta, App no. 42337/12(ECtHR 9 December 2013), available at http://hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng?i=001-122893; 70 Subsidiary Legislation 217.12, Laws of Malta Article 2: "country of origin" means the country or countries of nationality or, for stateless persons, of former habitual residence;” 71 Not published at the time of writing. 72 Suso Musa v. Malta, App no. 42337/12(ECHR 9 December 2013), para. 122, available at http://hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng?i=001-122893 73 Chapter 9, Laws of Malta, Available at http://www.justiceservices.gov.mt/DownloadDocument.aspx?app=l om&itemid=8574&l=1 74 Louled Massoud v. Malta, App. no. 24340/08(ECHR 27 July 2010), para. 4, available at http://hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng?i=001-100143 75 Ibid. para. 44 76 Sabeur Ben Ali v. Malta App no 35892/97 (ECtHR, 29 June 2000), para. 40; Kadem v. Malta App no 55263/00, (ECHR 9 January 2003) para. 53 77 Louled Massoud v. Malta App no. 24340/08 (ECtHR 27 July 2010) available at http://hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng?i=001-100143 78 Interview with Sup. Int. Neville Xuereb, Immigration Police, 23 March 2015. 79 Reply of Hon. Minister for Home Affairs and National Security Carmelo Abela to a public question during a seminar organised by the Agency for the Welfare of Asylum-Seekers in Malta, 24 June 2015. 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 Chapter 217, Laws of Malta, Article 25A(6), available at http://justiceservices.gov.mt/DownloadDocument.aspx?app=lom&it emid=8722&l=1 Subsidiary Legislation 217.02, Laws of Malta, article 11(6), available at http://justiceservices.gov.mt/DownloadDocument.aspx?app=lom&it emid=11637&l=1 Subsidiary Legislation 420.06, Laws of Malta available at http://www.justiceservices.gov.mt/DownloadDocument.aspx?app=l om&itemid=10662&l=1 Ibid. Article 7 For more details on the impact of detention on unaccompanied children, see aditus foundation, Unaccompanied Minor AsylumSeekers in Malta: A technical Report on Age Assessment and Guardianship Procedures, 2014, available at http://aditus.org.mt/Publications/uamsreport_102014.pdf, page 10. Asylum Information Database, Country Report: Malta, February 2015, p. 43, available at http://www.asylumineurope.org/reports/country/malta Ibid. para. 32 Asylum Information Database, Country Report: Malta, February 2015, p.51, available at http://www.asylumineurope.org/reports/country/malta Further commentaries on the conditions in detention centres may be found here: United Nations, Report of the Committee against Torture, Twenty-third session (8-19 November 1999) and Twentyfourth session (1-19 May 2000), para 41-45, available at http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/treatybodyexternal/Download. aspx?symbolno=A%2f55%2f44(SUPP)&Lang=en; Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) Malta, ‘Care in Captivity?’, December 2014, available at https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/181171164/Care%20in%20 Captivity.pdf; European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI), Fourth report on Malta, 20 June 2013, available at https://www.coe.int/t/dghl/monitoring/ecri/Country-bycountry/Malta/MLT-CbC-IV-2013-037-ENG.pdf; United Nations, Working Group on Arbitrary Detention Statement at the conclusion of its follow up visit to Malta(23-25 June 2015), available at http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?N ewsID=16156&LangID=E. Aden Ahmed v. Malta App no. 55352/12 (ECtHR 9 December 2013), available at http://hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng?i=001-122894