“to receive complaints related to human rights and to study them and refer what needs to be referred thereof to the competent quarters while effectively following up on them, or to inform those concerned about the measures to be taken and to help them to take them, or to help in settling them with the concerned quarters.” 3- Concerning field visits as one of the means for monitoring granted to the NIHR, Paragraph (G) of Article Number (12) thereof stipulated its jurisdiction to “perform field visits in accordance with recognized norms for monitoring the human rights situation in reform institutions, detention centers, workers assembly places and medical and educational institutions, or any other public place suspected of being a location where human rights are violated.” These are all jurisdictions pivoting around the role assumed by the NIHR in the field of protecting human rights. 4- To effectuate those jurisdictions included in the provisions of the law, the NIHR has played a distinguished role in the field of protecting human rights, where it issued seven statements on separate occasion related to human rights, where in a statement it expressed its deep regret at the death and injury of a number of policemen in disparate security circumstances, while stating its condolences to the relatives of the deceased, and also calling for adherence to peaceful conduct, and demanding of society to shun violence and to adhere to calm, and to foster stability. ‫اﻟﺘﻘﺮﻳﺮ اﻟﺴﻨﻮي اﻟﺜﺎﻟﺚ‬ ‫ﻟﻠﻤﺆﺳﺴﺔ اﻟﻮﻃﻨﻴﺔ ﻟﺤﻘﻮق اﻧﺴﻨﺎم‬ ‫ ـ ﻣﻤﻠﻜﺔ اﻟﺒﺤﺮﻳﻦ‬2015 ‫ﻟﻌﺎم‬ 5- Moreover, it issued a statement in which it renewed its rejection of repeating the publication of the photos and names of the accused prior to the issuance of a final verdict, while emphasizing the importance of complying with the provisions of the Constitution, particularly paragraph (c) of Article Number (20) which states that the “accused is innocent until convicted by a legal trial which provides him with the necessary guarantees for exercising the right to defense in all the stages of investigation and trial in accordance with the law,” and is not compatible with Paragraph One of Article Number (11) of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights which stipulates that “every person accused of a crime is considered innocent until proven guilty in a public trial which guarantees him the necessary means of defense” and Paragraph Two of Article Number (14) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) which stipulates that “it is the right of any person accused of committing a crime to be considered innocent until proven guilty under the law,” whilst emphasizing the principle of presumed innocence, and the maintenance of the human dignity of the accused. 6- In the field of the protection of freedom of opinion and the right to free speech, the Institution issued a statement concerning the action of the Media Affairs Authority to cease the issuance and circulation of a local newspaper and emphasized the importance of compliance with the provisions of legislative edict Number (47) for the year 2002 concerning the regulation of the press, printing and publication and specifically Article Number (78) which authorized only the court to stop the issuance of the newspaper such based on the demand of the public prosecution or the victim, and Article Number (28) which stipulates that it is “impermissible to confiscate newspapers or suspend them or revoke their licenses except by a court decision.” 67