The new Syriza-led government in Greece has pledged to move more quickly on a campaign promise to right a wrong by previous governments by closing the country’s widely-criticized immigrant detention centers.

Deputy Interior Minister Yannis Panousis, who oversees public order and civic protection, promised immediate action after a visit to the Amygdaleza detention center in western Athens on Saturday, during which approximately 50 detainees staged a protest against their ongoing detention and the center’s deplorable conditions. The night prior to Panousis’s visit, a 28-year-old Pakistani man held at the facility reportedly died in a suspected suicide.

The demonstrators held up a banner reading, “Shut down the concentration camps” and “Freedom. We die here.”