11. The purpose of the visit to the Republic of Moldova in June was to assess the progress made in implementing the Committee’s previous recommendations concerning the situation in prison establishments. The CPT’s delegation visited Prison No. 13 in Chișinău, Prison No. 10 for juveniles in Goian and Prison No. 6 in Soroca. 12. The primary objective of the visit to the Russian Federation in October was to examine the progress made as regards the implementation of previous CPT recommendations concerning the situation of patients in civil and forensic psychiatric hospitals and of residents of social care homes (psycho-neurological boarding homes). 13. The CPT’s ad hoc visit to Catalonia in Spain was carried out in September and focused on prison and police establishments and assessing the progress made since the CPT’s previous visits to this region in 2011 and 2012. To this end, the CPT’s delegation visited several prisons, examining in particular the situation of prisoners placed in special and closed regime departments and that of women prisoners. The CPT’s delegation also visited several Mossos d’Esquadra stations where it looked into the effectiveness of legal safeguards afforded to detained persons and examined their treatment and the conditions of detention in which they were held. 14. The main objective of the visit to Turkey in April was to examine the treatment and living conditions of patients/residents in psychiatric hospitals and social welfare institutions, for the first time since 2006. In addition, the CPT’s delegation looked into the legal safeguards related to involuntary placement procedures and their implementation in practice. 15. Finally, the visit to the United Kingdom in October focused on police and prisons in Scotland, to assess the progress made since the CPT’s previous visit in 2012. During the visit the delegation examined the situation of prisoners in various Scottish prisons, and paid specific attention to those inmates in segregation, in remand, women prisoners generally and to overall health-care issues. In addition, the delegation examined the treatment of persons in police custody and carried out visits to several police custody facilities across Scotland. Monitoring of the situation of persons convicted by international tribunals or special courts 16. In England, a delegation of the CPT also examined the treatment and conditions of detention of one person convicted by the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL). This specific monitoring activity of the CPT flows from an Exchange of Letters between the Residual Special Court for Sierra Leone (RSCSL) and the CPT, and an Agreement between the RSCSL and the United Kingdom Government. Activities during the period 1 January to 31 December 2018 ► Page 11