National Institution for Human Rights – Kingdom of Bahrain chaos and riot in one of the wards and the detainees were exposed to assault, beating, and ill-treatment. In coordination with the Ministry of Interior, NIHR visited the center to investigate the matter and meet with the officials and detainees. The officials reported that on Friday, August 16th, 2013, at 3:00 AM, an officer and a number of prison guards searched wing 10, after receiving information from private sources on prior planned intention by the detainees to enter mobile phones to the wings. Three mobile phones were actually ceased. Subsequently, the detainees created chaos within the wing and hit and assaulted some of the police officers and tried to detain them inside the cell. They also removed the doors, and destructed some electrical appliances within the wing, poured soap and water in the corridor and connected it to a power supply. Pepper was sprayed to deal with the situation in an attempt to cripple their movement and release the police officers. Order keeping forcers were then employed to deal with the detainees, using sound bombs, in order to restore order in the wing. The detainees were then placed in another wing to carry out maintenance works and get things back to normal. The officials confirmed that they dealt with the detainees in accordance with international laws and humanitarian standards. 31. Subsequently, NIHR delegation visited the wing in question, accompanied by the competent officials. The delegation met the detainees from behind the steel doors of the rooms, and found that the wing contains fourteen rooms, and that the total detainees distributed to the rooms are one hundred and fifty detainees. Some of the detainees revealed the upper part of their bodies where assault symptoms were evident on different parts of their bodies. It seems that these injuries resulted from using rubber batons, which left severe red marks. Other injury traces were evident on the hand of one of the detainees, which he said that it is attributed to the use of a plastic cuff and pulling him forcibly. Other marks of injuries were found on the bodies of some detainees, apparently due to random kicking during or after the inspection process. The detainees added that they had been subjected to insults and sectarian curses during the inspection process, in addition to provocative acts such as waking them up using batons strongly. They reported that one of the officers turned the prayer voice off on prayer time, while others were prevented from reaching the Quran. 32. Some of the detainees claimed that they were not allowed to change their clothes after the inspection. One detainee was seen covered with a blanket for not enabling him to wear his underwears. When asked about the reason for this, he reported that the officials had detained his clothes in a private room and prevented his access to them. That Particular room was examined and the delegation noted that clothes were stacked in waste black Plastic bags. All pieces of clothes were mixed without labels to indicate the names of their respective owners. 33. In addition, it was noted that there were two non-Bahraini detainees in the same cell who were detained for criminal cases (one was detained in a drug case, and the other in a theft case) with severe and evident assault marks. When asked about the cause of those injuries, they said that they have been subjected to what the rest of the detainees were subjected to as a form of collective punishment. One of the detainees reported that one of the officers assaulted him by kicking and asked him about his sect. When he informed him that he is Shiite, he kicked and hit him even more. 34. Following the allegations of using shotgun and tear gas, the NIHR delegation verified these allegations by asking a number of detainees who have denied their use, adding that only stun grenades and pepper were used. 35. During the visit, NIHR delegation met three detainees in private. The first detainee said that during the inspection, he was injured behind his head as a result of beating 23