Second Annual Report of the National Institution for Human Rights (NIHR) 2014 - Kingdom of Bahrain
25. Accordingly, in this regard, NIHR appreciates the efforts of the Ministry of the Interior to
solve this problem through communication with the competent authorities and the relevant
parties. It stresses the need for the Supreme Judicial Council, as the authority in charge of the
supervision and control of law enforcement, to undertake a prominent role in the issue of the
implementation of the deportation orders if they conflict with any other judicial decisions
issued by the courts, without prejudice to the rights of the foreigners and the interests of the
other concerned parties.
26. NIHR stresses the need for the various diplomatic missions to assume a prominent role in
following up the affairs of their nationals, in particular, in connection with the procedures,
decisions and judgments issued against foreign nationals. This can be accomplished through
communication with the competent authorities in the Kingdom or communication with the
families of these nationals in their countries in order to make settlements, particularly financial
settlements, for implementation of the deportation orders issued against them.
27. As part of NIHR mandate in the protection of human rights, NIHR played an active role
in receiving, considering, and referring the various types of complaints of human rights
violations to the competent authorities, following up these complaints effectively, informing
those concerned of the procedures that should be applied, helping them take such procedures,
or assisting in the settlement of complaints with the relevant authorities. In 2014, NIHR
handled 88 various complaints in terms of the rights which are claimed to have been violated.
28. The number of complaints related to civil and political rights amounted to seventy-eight.
The number of complaints related to the right to physical and moral integrity amounted
to fourteen; the number of complaints related to the right to liberty and security of person
amounted to thirty-three; while the number of complaints related to the right to the enjoyment
of fair trial guarantees amounted to twenty-four. Two complaints were related to the right to
appeal before the administrative body, while the complaints related to freedom of residence
and movement amounted to three. The share of complaints related to the right to equality and
non-discrimination in the enjoyment of civil and political rights was two.
29. With regard to the complaints related to economic, social and cultural rights, NIHR received a
total of seven complaints in terms of the rights which are claimed to have been violated. The
complaints related to the right to education amounted to four, and there was one complaint
related to the right to equality and non-discrimination; one complaint related to the right to
employment; and one complaint related to the right to an adequate standard of living (right
to housing). In addition, NIHR received three complaints which address issues that do not fall
within the civil, political, economic, cultural or social rights.
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