Activities during the period 1 January to 31 December 2015 Visits 1. The CPT organised 17 visits totalling 160 days during the year 2015. Ten of the visits (totalling 108 days) formed part of the CPT’s annual programme of peri­ odic visits for 2015 and seven (52 days) were ad hoc visits which the Committee considered were required in the circum­ stances. Details of all these visits (dates and places of deprivation of liberty visited) are provided in Appendix 7. Periodic visits 2. Periodic visits were carried out to Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Malta, the Republic of Moldova, Serbia, Sweden and Switzerland. The main objective of the visits was to review the measures taken by the relevant authorities to implement recommendations made by the Committee after previous visits to the country. To this end, the CPT examined the treatment and conditions of detention of persons held in police establishments and prisons. Particular attention was paid to specific issues such as overcrowding and the provision of health care, as well as to specific categories, for instance, life-sentenced prisoners (Republic of Moldova), prisoners held in high-security units (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Switzerland) and inmates held in solitary confinement in prisons for prolonged periods (Germany). For the first time, the CPT assessed the conditions of “radicalised” prisoners (France). Visiting delegations also continued to pay attention to the treatment and conditions of juveniles (notably in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Malta, Luxembourg, the Republic of Moldova, Serbia and Switzerland) and foreign nationals detained under aliens legislation (Luxembourg, Malta). Moreover, in most of the countries visited (Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, France, Germany, Malta, Republic of Moldova, Serbia and Switzerland), delegations visited civil and/or forensic psychiatric establishments in order to examine the treatment and legal safeguards offered to patients admitted on an involuntary basis. In the Republic of Moldova and Serbia, visits were also carried out to social care homes. ► Page 5