e) the freedom to choose the places they want to visit and the persons they want to have meetings with. 3. According to Law no. 35/1997, republished: - art. 40 par. (1) and art. 41 par. (1) and (5): the visited institutions must provide the representatives of the visit team, according to the law, before, during or after performing the visit, with any documents or information available to them or which they can obtain, requested by them with a view to fulfilling their legal attributions; for the fulfilment of such attributions, the members of the visit team may have confidential meetings with any person deprived from freedom within the visited institution, and the names and other personal data of the interviewed person can only be made public with the prior written approval of the latter or of its legal representative. - art. 23: The People’s Advocate and his deputies have access, according to the law, to the classified information held by public authorities, provided that they think it is required to solve the petitions that have been addressed, as well as the notices ex officio and the announced or spot visits they perform to fulfil the specific attributions of the National Mechanism for the Prevention of Torture in Detention Places. The People’s Advocate has the obligation not to disclose or make public the information or secret documents he has had access to. This obligation is maintained after the end of his activity as the People’s Advocate and is extended to his deputies, as well as the staff under his services, under the sanction stipulated by criminal law. 4. The Protocol of Istanbul makes reference to the central role of psychological assessment in the identification of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment and sets out that psychological assessments may provide critical evidence of abuse among victims of torture, for several reasons: torture frequently causes devastating psychological symptoms; torture methods are frequently designed not to leave physical marks; physical methods of torture may result in physical findings that may resolve or be non-specific. Based on the answer of the General Inspectorate for Immigration, the requested documents may be provided by the representatives of the nongovernmental organization, in compliance with the relevant legal provisions, 42