The concerned authority stated that
the applicable law has guaranteed
numerous legal and procedural guarantees for inmates, including communicating and family visits. Faced
with the Covid-19 pandemic, videoconferencing was used as an alternative solution to visits in compliance
with the preventive and precautionary measures recommended by the
competent authorities. With the decline of the pandemic, reform and rehabilitation centers commenced receiving visitors and the categories
that are legally allowed to visit, to ensure the inmates’ rights to communicate with their families.
felonies or misdemeanors, while allowing the lawyer an adequate period of time when meeting the inmate or the detainee. There is an
electronic system installed in all security facilities that documents and registers all the actions taken with regard to the accused, including phone
calls and visits. As for foreign inmates, they are granted the right to
contact their country’s embassy or
their diplomatic or consular representative. These facilities have designated equipped rooms for such visits.
If an inmate wishes to appoint a lawyer or a lawyer submits a power of attorney for an inmate, both are enabled to complete these procedures.
3) Text of the Recommendation and
Summary of the Response of the Concerned Authority:
Requirement Three
Recommendations Related to the Right
to Physical and Mental Integrity
Take the necessary measures to ensure
that the inmates and detainees in correction and rehabilitation centers are
granted the right to communicate immediately with any member of their
family, as deemed appropriate, to inform them of what happened, and to
enable them seek the assistance of a
lawyer, whether in felonies or misdemeanors, while giving the lawyer sufficient time when meeting the inmate or
the detainee.
1) Text of the Recommendation and
Summary of the Response of the Concerned Authority:
Put law enforcement officers through
comprehensive and extensive training
programs using curricula that incorporate all the components of human
rights, provided that the training modules include effective interrogation
methods and proper techniques of obtaining information without resorting
to coercive means such as torture or
other forms of ill-treatment. In addition, exclude those law enforcement officers found to have mistreated detainees or convicted persons from service.
Summary of the Ministry of Interior's response:
The concerned authority stated that
all the laws in force have guaranteed
inmates and detainees the right to
immediately contact any member of
their families, as they deem appropriate, to inform them of what had happened, and enable them to seek the
assistance of an attorney, whether in
Summary of the Public Prosecution’s response:
The competent authority stated that
it is training its members intensively
in this field as part of its sustainable
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