-8I. 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 28 March to 9 April 2019. The visit formed part of the CPT’s programme of periodic visits for 2019. It was the Committee’s sixteenth visit to Greece.1 2. The visit was carried out by the following members of the CPT: - Mykola Gnatovskyy, President of the CPT (Head of delegation) - Djordje Alempijević - Arta Mandro - Alan Mitchell - Olga Noyanova - Ilvija Pūce. They were supported by Hugh Chetwynd, Head of Division, and Sebastian Rietz of the Committee’s Secretariat, and assisted by James Hard, General Practitioner working in prisons in Wales, United Kingdom, and Martin Lomas, Deputy Chief Inspector of Prisons in England and Wales, United Kingdom (experts), as well as by Eleonora Cambas, Munasib Khan, Melpomene Konstantinidi, Ira Londo, Ionathan Markel and Alexander Zaphirou (interpreters). 3. The list of prison and police establishments visited by the CPT’s delegation can be found in Appendix I. 4. The report on the visit was adopted by the CPT at its 99th meeting, held from 1 to 5 July 2019, and transmitted to the Greek authorities on 19 July 2019. 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 six 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. However, as regards the recommendations and requests for information contained in paragraphs 38, 39, 58, 69 and 116 of the report, the CPT requests that a response be provided within three months. 1 The CPT has previously carried out six periodic visits (between 1993 and 2013) and nine ad hoc visits (between 1996 and 2018) to Greece. The reports on these visits and the responses of the Greek authorities are available on the CPT’s website: https://www.coe.int/en/web/cpt/greece.