1. During 2016, 101 visits were made to deprivation of liberty facilities. Of said visits, 17 consisted
of multidisciplinary visits involving the participation of external experts in medicine, forensic
medicine, psychiatry and psychology, and 63 were follow-up visits completed to check compliance
with recommendations made in previous visits, and to detect any new shortcomings.
The Ombudsman herself took part in 9 visits. The spokespeople of the NPM Advisory
Council took part in 14 visits and 8 visits involved the participation of members of the Regional
Ombudsman Offices (Defensor del Pueblo Andaluz [Andalusia], Síndic de Greuges de Catalunya
[Catalonia], Justicia de Aragón, Síndic de Greuges de la Comunitat Valenciana [Valencia],
Procurador del Común de Castilla y León, Ararteko del País Vasco [Basque Country], Diputado del
Común de Canarias [Canary Islands] and Valedor do Pobo de Galicia). One of the visits took place
in the company of the Korean National Committee for Human Rights and another involved the
Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT).
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