13.1. International relations The visits conducted by the NPM in 2016 focused on the isolation, “solitary confinement” of persons deprived of their liberty at the place of their detention. While working out the aspects of the visits, my colleagues contacted the representative of the British National Preventive Mechanism, requesting to share their relevant experiences. Louise Finer provided me with relevant working papers and access to the British National Preventive Mechanism’s annual reports online in electronic format. My colleagues adapted the contents of the working papers to the working methods of the NPM and the Hungarian conditions and used them in every place of detention visited in 2016. The Association for Prevention of Torture (hereinafter the “APT”), a Switzerland-based civil organization requested the Hungarian National Preventive Mechanism to join the campaign organized on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the OPCAT’s entry into force. Within the frameworks of the campaign, on June 22, 2016, I held a press briefing in my Office, during which I presented my first comprehensive annual report on the performance of the tasks of the NPM, and my colleagues screened a short film made by the APT. At the end of 2016, I sent the APT a summary of my reports on the anomalies found in 2015 in the transfer cells of the lock-up unit of the Juvenile Penitentiary Institution and the conclusions of the follow-up inspection. On July 14, 2016, I received two members of Médecins Sans Frontières (hereinafter the “MSF”). In early July, the President of the MSF had a meeting with the representatives of the Police and the Office of Immigration and Nationality, during which they voiced their concerns in connection with the situation on the Hungarian–Serbian border. In this context, my colleagues gave a detailed briefing to the representatives of the MSF. In September 2016, the Department informed the Latvian Ombudsman on the rights of persons detained in Hungarian penitentiary institutions as regards correspondence and visitation. On November 24, 2016, Gergely Fliegauf and Anita Karácsony-Pápai met the representatives of the Hungarian Office of the International Organization of Migrants (hereinafter the “IOM”) and provided assistance in compiling a checklist for a newly launched, EU-financed program on providing uniform care to unaccompanied minors. On December 07, 2016, Gergely Fliegauf and Anita Karácsony-Pápai had a meeting in the Office with Hindpal Singh Bhui, a prison and refugee expert of the British National Preventive Mechanism, and held consultations on the activities of the Hungarian and British NPMs. In December 2016, I was requested by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade to recommend someone to the soon to be vacant position of the Hungarian member of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture 97