14. During the reference period, the CPT carried out one periodic visit (see section “Publication highlights”, paragraphs 91 to 95) and two ad hoc visits to Ukraine. 15. The February 2014 ad hoc visit was triggered by numerous reports of ill-treatment of persons apprehended by Internal Afairs special forces in the context of the “Maidan” protests at Independence Square that broke out at the end of 2013. During the visit, the CPT’s delegation examined the manner in which detained protestors were treated by law enforcement ofcials and/or other individuals assisting them. In Kyiv, interviews were held with a number of persons apprehended in January 2014 who had allegedly been ill-treated. Further, the delegation spoke with many of the persons apprehended by Internal Afairs/ Security Service special forces and/or other persons supporting them in the course of extremely violent law enforcement operations which began on the frst day of the visit and ended with a considerable number of deaths. In the Dnipropetrovsk Region, the delegation interviewed a number of persons apprehended during the law enforcement operations conducted in late January 2014. The delegation also had an opportunity to go to the site where the socalled “anti-Maidan” protest camp was located and where a number of persons were allegedly being held by unidentifed private individuals or public ofcials before being handed over to members of Internal Afairs special forces. 16. One of the objectives of the September 2014 ad hoc visit to Ukraine was to review the treatment of prisoners in two correctional colonies in the Kharkiv area, namely Colonies Nos. 25 and 100. During previous visits, in particular to Colony No. 25, the CPT had heard many allegations of severe physical General Report of the CPT, 2013-2014 ► Page 12 ill-treatment of prisoners by prison ofcers. In 2013, the Committee had also received clear indications that, shortly after the previous visit to Colony No. 25, prisoners had been subjected to corporal punishment and other reprisals for purportedly having complained to the CPT’s delegation. Another objective of the September visit was to examine the situation of persons who had been detained in the context of ongoing “anti-terrorism” operations. For this purpose, the delegation interviewed a considerable number of such persons at the pre-trial establishments (SIZOs) in Kyiv and Kharkiv as well as at the detention facility of the State Security Service in Kyiv. The visit also provided an opportunity to review the action taken by prosecutors to investigate allegations of ill-treatment of detained persons by law enforcement ofcials during the “Maidan” events in Kyiv between November 2013 and February 2014. 17. In November 2014, the CPT visited the United Kingdom, where it examined the treatment and conditions of detention of one person convicted by the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) (see also paragraph 20). The CPT also carried out its frst visit to the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. The visit provided an opportunity to assess the conditions of detention and treatment of persons held in prison and to look at the safeguards in place for persons deprived of their liberty by the police. The CPT’s delegation also visited the court holding cells and establishments under the authority of the Gibraltar customs’ enforcement agency and the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence. Further, the delegation examined the situation of civil involuntary and forensic patients in a psychiatric hospital and visited two social care homes.