Table of Contents Introduction 5 Section 1:  Broad mandate of NIHR in the promotion and protection of human rights 8 Section 2: Torture and enforced disappearance crimes in light of national legislation and international human rights law 1. Torture crime in light of national legislation and international human rights law 2. Enforced disappearance crime in light of national legislation and International human rights law 12 Section 3: Summary of the events of the case known as (1/Terrorism/2017) 21 Section 4: The legal basis for the jurisdiction of the Military Court of Bahrain Defence Force to consider the case known as (1/Terrorism/2017) 24 Section 5: NIHR efforts in verifying that a number of convicts in the case known as (1/Terrorism/2017) were subjected to allegations of torture and enforced disappearance crimes 1. NIHR efforts to ensure fair trial guarantees 2. NIHR efforts in verifying allegations of torture crime 3. NIHR efforts in verifying allegations of enforced disappearance crime 27 12 15 27 28 31