depriving the detainee from communication with the outside world and particularly his family or
attorney.
7. Perhaps what is stated in the UN rules Concerning protection of juveniles deprived of their freedom
issued pursuant to the UN General Assembly Resolution (113/45) dated 14 December 1900 is among
the explicit stipulations in this connection which affirmed and confirmed this right, where Article
(58) of those rules provided the necessity of affording the juvenile the opportunity to participate in
the funeral of the deceased from his family, and the right in accordance with the same rules extends
to establishing the right of the juvenile to visit his relative suffering from a serious illness and whose
death he fears.
8. Moreover, the right of the detainees or the one subject to provisional detention to communicate
with his family, particular in critical circumstances, is grounded in the Constitution of the Kingdom
of Bahrain, where Article (5) thereof provides that: “The family is the basis of society, deriving its
strength from religion, morality and love of the homeland. The law preserves its lawful entity,
strengthens its bonds and values, under its aegis extends protection to mothers and children,
tends the young and protects them from exploitation and safeguards them against moral, bodily
and spiritual neglect.”, and hence the right of the detainees to the outside world is an essential
requirement for protecting the right to private and family life, and a motive and incentive for the
detainee or one subject to precautionary imprisonment to safeguard his psychological state and
a supporting element enabling him to interact with the prison environment, and regarding the
partaking of the detainee or one subject to provisional Detention in the bereavement ceremonies or
participating in the funeral of the deceased, this affords them the final opportunity for the relatives
to see him, particularly in case a long period of time had elapsed since their last encounter.
9. Actually, Article (41) of Law Number (18) of 2014 in the Reform and Rehabilitation Centre Law
provides that
10. Moreover, Article (24) of Decision Number (131) of 2015 concerning the executive regulations of the
Reform and Rehabilitation Centre Law provides that “it is permissible for the institution’s director
or his deputy – in case of necessity, and after the approval of the minister or his deputy- to permit
the inmates to go to the bereavement places or in any other case, and entered into the permit are all
the details related to the duration of the visit, its location .. and the security aspects to be given due
regard. Moreover, it is permissible for the preventively detained to go to the place of bereavement
and in any other case, in compliance with the First Paragraph of this Article, on the condition that
the prosecution or the quarter issuing the imprisonment order approve.”
11. Hence, it becomes evident that the abovementioned Articles assure the right of the detainee or one
subject to preventive custody to leave the detention center to visit family in case of the death of one
of his relatives and in order to be present in bereavement places, but the same stipulations placed
restrictions on utilizing the rights represented in the following: 1- The permission to leave shall be
given by the director of the institution or his deputy. 2- It is necessary to obtain the approval of the
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