6. Article 63 provides that: “The Higher Civil Court of Appeal President, High Civil Court President, execution judges, and members of the Public Prosecution shall be empowered to visit and inspect prisons periodically every three months and report this to the Supreme Judicial Council. b. Without prejudice to the foregoing clause, the Higher Civil Court of Appeal President, High Civil Court President, execution judges, and members of the Public Prosecution shall be empowered to inspect prisons to satisfy themselves that there is no person who is illegally imprisoned. They shall be empowered to have access to the prison books and arrest and imprisonment warrants, obtain copies thereof, contact with any prisoner and hear from him any complaint that he may have. The prison officers and staff shall render to them all assistance to obtain the information they request”. 7. NIHR concurs with the provision set out in the draft law, which prescribes that there should be an independent, periodic and regular judicial oversight of the reform and rehabilitation institutions, as it ensures the correct implementation of the judicial decisions issued by courts of different types. In addition, it is a control that ensures the rights and freedoms of the detainees, as decided by the provisions of the Constitution, the law and international conventions acceded to or ratified by the Kingdom of Bahrain. 8. I n its views, NIHR confirmed that the said article set out in the original law grants the judicial authority the right to control and inspect reform and rehabilitation institutions, which is a principle consistent with the need for an independent judicial control over those institutions. This control and visits should be performed regularly every three months. It creates an independent and effective control that ensures correct implementation of the decisions issued by courts of different types. Such control ensures the rights and freedoms of the detainees set out in the provisions of the Constitution, the law and international conventions acceded to or ratified by the Kingdom of Bahrain and is consistent with the relevant provisions set out in Law No. 18 of 2014 Enacting the Reform and Rehabilitation Institutions Law, especially Article 63 thereof. 9. Article 64 provides that: “Every prisoner shall be entitled to file at any time with the prison officer a written or verbal complaint to be reported to the High Civil Court of Appeal President, High Civil Court President, execution judge or Public Prosecution. The complaint may be submitted in a closed envelop. The said officer shall accept the complaint and submit to the complainant a receipt indicating the receipt of the complaint and the date of receipt. The officer shall report it immediately to the concerned person after recording it in the register maintained for this purpose in the prison. A document indicating that the complaint has been sent to the party to which it is addressed shall be attached to the prisoner file no later than three days from the date of receiving the complaint, after entering it in the register prepared for this purpose in the prison. The prisoner file shall also include a document that indicates that the complaint has been sent to the party to which it is addressed and the notification date. Everyone who becomes aware of any person who is illegally imprisoned or kept in a place that is not intended for imprisonment shall give notice to the execution judge or a member of the public prosecution, as stated in the foregoing paragraph. The execution judge or a member of the public prosecution shall be required to immediately 18