20 years of combating torture: CPT General Report 2008-2009 22. During the ad hoc visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina in May 2009, the CPT’s delegation assessed the progress made in implementing recommendations made after the last periodic visit to the country, in 2007. High-level talks were also held with the relevant State and Entity authorities with a view to enhancing their co-operation with the Committee. The delegation focused on the treatment and conditions of detention of both remand and sentenced prisoners and, in this context, it examined developments in relation to prison health care services. Particular attention was also paid to the situation of forensic and acute psychiatric patients. 23. The ad hoc visit to Bulgaria in December 2008 was also very much of a follow-up nature, the main objective being to review steps taken to implement recommendations made in the report on the 2006 periodic visit to the country. The visit focused on the treatment of persons detained by the police, the situation of foreign nationals deprived of their liberty, and conditions of detention in both investigation detention facilities and prisons. 24. The ad hoc visit to French Guyana in November/December 2008 was the first visit by the CPT to this administrative region of France. The Committee wished in particular to examine the situation at Remire Montjoly Prison; according to reports which it had received, this establishment was overcrowded and suffered from an internal climate of violence. The CPT’s delegation also reviewed the treatment of persons held by the law enforcement agencies, including foreign nationals detained under aliens legislation. 25. In April/May 2009, the CPT organised its first visit to Abkhazia, Georgia. The background to this ad hoc visit will be commented upon later (see paragraphs 31-32, page 18). During the visit, the Committee’s delegation examined the situation in a range of places of deprivation of liberty, including various pre-trial detention facilities as well as the region’s prison and psychiatric hospital. The de facto authorities in Abkhazia co-operated fully with the CPT’s delegation. In particular, the delegation was granted access to all places of deprivation of liberty which it wished to visit and was able to interview in private persons deprived of their liberty. 26. The ad hoc visit to Greece in September 2008 focused on the treatment of persons detained by law enforcement agencies. Particular attention was paid to the situation of irregular migrants detained under aliens legislation and held in either police/border guard stations or special holding facilities under the responsibility of the Ministry of the Interior. Both the report on this visit and the response of the Greek authorities have now been placed in the public domain, and will be commented upon in the section “Publication highlights” (see paragraphs 58-61, page 30). 16