when the threat is accompanied by a request or instruction to carry out something, including deterring the person or influencing his/her testimony or statement in the proceedings before the investigating authority or the court. It would follow implicitly from the provision of this article that the Bahraini legislature prohibits the use of statements extracted under torture or threat as evidence in any judicial proceedings. 3.6 In October 2012, the Code of Civil Procedure was amended in accordance with Law No. (50) of 2012 amending certain provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure promulgated by Decree-Law No. (46) of 2002. The amendment entitles those claiming to be subjected to reprisal on account of having previously alleged that he/she was subjected to torture or other forms of cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment, to bring a civil claim against the accused person during the evidence-gathering or investigation stages, or before the court hearing the criminal case at any stage up until the closure of pleadings. Such claims are inadmissible before the appeal courts unless the reprisal constitutes an offence. The amendment further stipulated that the provisions of the Chapter on "Arrest of the Accused" shall be in force during the declaration of the state of national safety, in line with the provisions of Article (2), Paragraph (2) of the Convention against Torture. 3.7 The same Law has also been amended pursuant to the Decree-Law No. (53) of 2012 amending certain provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure promulgated by Decree-Law No. (46) of 2002 to provide Parallel Report by the National Institution for Human Rights of the Kingdom of Bahrain to the Human Rights Committee © 2018 25