severe pain or suffering, whether physically or mentally, on a person who was detained or under his control for the purpose of obtaining information from him or another person or confession, punishment for an act committed or suspected to be committed by him or another person, intimidating or forcing him or any other person for any reason based on discrimination of any kind. In this amendment, the legislator excludes these crimes from statutory limitation period for crimes of torture, and considers the crimes against the right to physical and moral integrity as felonies rather than misdemeanours. 1.4 Law No. 49 of 2012 amending Article 81 of the Public Security Forces Law was promulgated by Decree Law No. (3) of 1981, under which crimes related to allegations of torture, inhuman or degrading treatment or death related to military crimes are excluded. Therefore, the jurisdiction to consider these crimes lies with ordinary courts, as this is a legislative approach in line with the relevant international standards. 1.5 In the context of international human rights instruments, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, to which the Government of the Kingdom of Bahrain has acceded under Law No. 56 of 2006, affirms in Article 6 that every human being has the inherent right to life. This right shall be protected by law. No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his life. In countries which have not abolished the death penalty, death penalty may be imposed only for the most serious crimes in accordance with the law in force pursuant to a final judgment rendered by a competent court. Article 7 provides that no one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment and no one shall be subjected without his free consent to medical or scientific experimentation. 1.6 The accession of the Government of the Kingdom of Bahrain to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or 13