-6I. INTRODUCTION A. The visit, the report and follow-up 1. In pursuance of Article 7 of the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (hereinafter referred to as “the Convention”), a delegation of the CPT carried out a visit to Greece from 10 to 19 April 2018. The visit was considered by the Committee “to be required in the circumstances” (cf. Article 7, paragraph 1, of the Convention). 2. The visit was carried out by the following members of the CPT: - Georg Høyer (Head of delegation) - Alan Mitchell - Jari Pirjola - Ilvija Pūce - Olivera Vulić. They were supported by Caterina Bolognese and Sebastian Rietz of the CPT's Secretariat, and assisted by an expert, Andres Lehtmets, Head of the Centre of Psychiatry, West Tallinn Central Hospital (Estonia), as well as Eleonora Cambas, Haris Ghinos, Ionathan Markel and Alexander Zaphiriou (interpreters). 3. The report on the visit was adopted by the CPT at its 96th meeting, held from 2 to 6 July 2018, and transmitted to the Greek authorities on 23 July 2018. The various recommendations, comments and requests for information made by the CPT are set out in bold type in the present report. The CPT requests the Greek authorities to provide, within three months, a response containing a full account of action taken by them to implement the Committee’s recommendations, as well as replies to the comments and requests for information formulated in this report. B. Context of the visit and cooperation encountered 4. The purpose of the visit was two-fold. On the one hand, for the first time since 2005, the CPT looked into the treatment, living conditions and safeguards offered to civil and forensic patients in various public psychiatric establishments, as well as a private one, each located in the Attica area. On the other hand, it examined again the situation of foreign nationals deprived of their liberty under aliens’ legislation to follow-up on its visits carried out in 2016. To this end, the CPT’s delegation visited several pre-removal centres, one reception and identification centre and a number of police and border guard stations, with a focus on the Evros region, the Aegean islands of Lesvos and Kos, and Attica. The list of establishments visited by the delegation can be found in Appendix I.