26. To revert to the provisions of Law Number (26) of 2014 establishing the National Institution as
amended, insofar as Article Number (12) Paragraph (f) thereof which granted it alongside the
authority to receive complaints, the authorization to provide legal assistance, through enlightening
those concerned with the procedures that must be taken and assisting them to follow them, or
helping to settle them with the concerned quarter, the National Institution adopts a role in providing
legal assistance to individuals or any quarter, whether such is on the occasion of filing a complaint
indicating that the National Institution has no jurisdiction in its view, or upon requesting such
legal assistance initially, such by elucidating the procedures that must be followed and assisting
in adopting them prior to resorting to the National Institution, while affirming the necessity of
exhausting all the means for obtaining fair treatment, administrative or legal aggrieving as the case
may require, or to notify the competent security quarter, or to refer to another quarter with true
competence to consider the request.
27. The National Institution received three hundred forty three (343) requests for assistance and legal
advice, some of which were related to personal issues or disputes between individuals, or matters
considered before judicial or administrative investigative quarter, or relates to the request to release
of convicted or detained persons, or consider the soundness or invalidity of the accusation, or
issues where the Institution has no competence to consider given that they occurred outside the
territories of the Kingdom, and communication with the concerned quarter took place concerning
some of them for humanitarian reasons even though the Institution is not competent to consider
such.
28. To put into effect the jurisdiction of the National Institution to conduct announced and unannounced
field visits, to monitor human rights conditions in reform institutions and detention canters, labour
places of gathering, health and educational canters, or any other public place suspected of being a
location where human rights are violated, the National Institution prepared a schedule to perform
visits to the reform, rehabilitation and precautionary detention centers for purposes of inspecting
the conditions of those centers and the persons whose freedom is restricted and to ascertain their
compatibility with the relevant national legislations and regulations, and the international human
rights conventions.
29. In consequence, the National Institution conducted an unannounced visit to the women’s Reform
and Rehabilitation Centres in the city of Isa with a view to inspect closely the situation of those
whose freedom is restricted, and its compatibility with the regional and international human rights
conventions and other relevant standards, particularly those related to the absorptive capacity of
the Center, and the extent of the right of the inmates and detainees to communicate with the outside
world, their availing of healthcare, their occupational rehabilitation, the quality of the food offered
to them, their physical health, and exercise of sports.
30. In fact, the delegation of the National Institution met the employees entrusted to apply the law in
the various sections of the Center, in order to ascertain the presence of the suitable environment
which fulfils the dignity of woman and guarantees her the maximum levels of protection, where the
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