CAT/OP/ROU/1/Add.1 In terms of reprisals, we specify that after the SPT visit, a person was designated as a focal point for investigating possible post-visit reprisals, but no such situations were reported. During the subsequent visits by the representatives of the Field, they took proactive actions to collect information on possible post-visit reprisals without identifying such cases. Visited authorities that have subordinate places of detention have been informed about their obligation to comply with the provisions of Art. 15 of the Optional Protocol, according to which ”No authority or official shall order, apply, permit or tolerate any sanction against any person or organization for having communicated to the Subcommittee on Prevention or to its delegates any information, whether true or false, and no such person or organization shall be otherwise prejudiced in any way”. Also, the public authorities were reminded the provisions of Article 21 (1) of the Optional Protocol, according to which ”No authority or official shall order, apply, permit or tolerate any sanction against any person or organization for having communicated to the national preventive mechanism any information, whether true or false, and no such person or organization shall be otherwise prejudiced in any way”, as well as those of art. 2910 of the Law No. 35/1997 regarding the organization and functioning of the People's Advocate Institution, republished, with the subsequent amendments and completions, which state that "No person can be held accountable for the information communicated to the visiting team members". Please note that during May-July 2016, visits were made to more types of detention facilities, of which we mention: Penitentiaries: Ploieşti Penitentiary, Poarta Albă Penitentiary, Iaşi Penitentiary, Botoşani Penitentiary, Craiova Penitentiary; Centres for Children: "Maternus" Maternal Center Iaşi, "Ana" Placement Centre Râmnicu Vâlcea, "Sfântul Stelian" Centre Ghimbav Braşov, "Cristina" Community Services Complex Constanţa County, "Dacia" Placement Centre Braşov; Psychiatric hospitals and centres for neuropsychiatric recovery and neuropsychiatric rehabilitation: "Socola" Psychiatric Hospital Iaşi, Poiana Mare Dolj Psychiatric Hospital, Neuropsychiatric Rehabilitation and Neuropsychiatric Rehabilitation Centre for Adults with Disabilities "Călineşti"; Detention and Remand Centres: Detention and Remand Centre No. 1 Bucharest, Detention and Remand Centre Vaslui, Detention and Remand Centre Neamţ, Detention and Remand Centre Timiş; Residential Homes for the Elderly: The home for elderly people "Sf. Elena "Târgovişte, the home for elderly people Periş - Ilfov County, the home for elderly people Bacău, the home for elderly people Braşov, the home for elderly people Gherla; Centres for Migrants: Accommodation and Procedures Centre for Asylum Seekers Giurgiu, Centre for Accommodation of Aliens Taken into Public Custody Arad. In this context, with regard to the prevention of reprisals, we mention: ► On July 12, 2016, the representatives of Bacău Zonal Centre and of Iaşi Territorial Office carried out the verification of the issues reported in the press, regarding the protests of persons deprived of their liberty in Iaşi Penitentiary, who expressed their discontent with the conditions of detention and resorted to various forms of protest, escalating buildings, burning objects and refusing food. With regard to the protests of July 11, 2016, they began at 7.10 PM in Sections 9, 3, 5, 7 and 8, when inmates offended security personnel, knocked in the bars of the windows, in the doors of the rooms and in the dishes, destroyed and removed some outside nets from the windows. 44