► the Questionnaire requested by FRA-APADOR-CH was filled in – Annex regarding interviews with representatives of the organizations/institutions involved in monitoring detention conditions. In this context, the mandate and attributions of the Field regarding prevention of torture in detention places and the findings of NPM during monitoring visits were presented, regarding the aspects included in the questionnaire: the fundamental rights of suspects/defendants subject to preventive arrest (the right to contact a lawyer and a third party, the access to an interpreter); the suspect’s/defendant’s access to medical assistance during preventive arrest (medical examinations, protection of the suspects/defendants against violence, the existence of ways of appeal provided to suspects/defendants to answer detention conditions); a general evaluation of the reinforcement of the procedural rights of suspects/defendants in the last two to three years and the need that such rights are enforced in the following as well. Furthermore, the preventive role of the Field regarding prevention of torture in detention places was outlined, as the Torture Prevention Mechanism (NPM). ► the Questionnaire drawn up by the German Institute for Human Rights for the GANHRI migration workgroup was filled in, which would help prepare a publication on the role of NHRIs in promoting and protecting migrants’ rights, part of the activities circumscribed to the Global Agreement on Migration. As for the various aspects resulting from the activity undertaken by the Field regarding prevention of torture in 2018, we conclude as follows: ►visit teams faced the lack of cooperation upon the visit (the Retirement Home of Mangalia, where it was claimed that the provisions of OPCAT did not apply to retirement homes). Thus, it was established that centres for elderly people/retirement homes were not subject to the monitoring of the Field regarding prevention of torture. In this context, we establish that, according to the Optional Protocol, freedom deprivation means any form of detention or imprisonment or placement of a person in a public or private detention place that s/he cannot leave at his/her own will, by order of any judicial, administrative or other authority. 33