-5I. 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 22 November to 1 December 2021. The visit was considered by the Committee “to be required in the circumstances” (cf. Article 7, paragraph 1, of the Convention). It was the Committee’s eighteenth visit to Greece.1 2. The visit was carried out by the following members of the CPT: - Alan Mitchell, President of the CPT and Head of delegation Djordje Alempijević Olga Noyanova Elsa Bára Traustadóttir Elisabetta Zamparutti. They were supported by Hugh Chetwynd, Head of Division, and Sebastian Rietz of the Committee's Secretariat, and assisted by Martin Lomas, Deputy Chief Inspector of Prisons in England and Wales, United Kingdom (expert). 3. In the course of the visit, the following prison establishments were visited by the CPT’s delegation: - Chios Prison Corfu Prison Korydallos Men’s Prison Korydallos Special Health Centre for Prisoners Kos Prison Nigrita Prison. Targeted visits were also carried out to the Athens Transfer Centre for Prisoners under the authority of the Hellenic Police and to Korydallos Psychiatric Hospital for Prisoners. 4. The report on the visit was adopted by the CPT at its 107th meeting, held from 28 February to 4 March 2022, and transmitted to the Greek authorities on 10 March 2022. 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 the action taken by them to implement the Committee’s recommendations, and replies to the comments and requests for information, formulated in this report. As regards the recommendation in paragraph 19, the CPT would like to be provided with an interim response within three months and a complete response within six months. 1 The visit reports and the responses of the Greek authorities on all previous visits are available on the CPT’s website: https://www.coe.int/en/web/cpt/greece.