National Institution for Human Rights – Kingdom of Bahrain 24. On two separate occasions, NIHR issued two statements in which it rejected the publication of the names and photographs of the accused before final court judgments are rendered. It confirmed its absolute rejection of publishing the names and photographs of the accused persons in the official media and newspapers, and considered that such acts violate the principle of presumption of innocence (the accused is deemed innocent until proven guilty) in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution and human rights international instruments to which the Government of the Kingdom of Bahrain is committed. 25. In a statement released by NIHR, it commended the measure taken by the Ministry of Education for allowing the detained or convicted students to sit for final exams. It praised the system adopted by the Ministry, which allows taking final exams in hospitals or reform and rehabilitation centers under the same conditions provided for other students. 26. In the same context, in a statement released by NIHR, the National Institution praised the decision of the Council of Ministers approving the establishment of the Prisoners and Detainees Rights Commissioner, as an independent national mechanism that allows monitoring prisons and detention centers. In another statement, NIHR praised the League of Arab States approval of the Kingdom of Bahrain request to host the headquarters of the Arab Court of Human Rights, as a necessary legal mechanism to support the human rights system under the umbrella of the League of Arab States. 27. With regard to the monitoring process, NIHR monitored daily events and news circulated in the media and social networks on the practices or alleged practices of human rights violations. Since the monitoring process is related to the various civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, NIHR included or indicated its observations in the course of addressing these various rights, and made the appropriate recommendations in this regard in chapters 2 and 3 of this report 28. In the same context related to protection of human rights, a representative of the National Institution attended a number of hearings related to security events, which attracted public attention. For instance, the Institution attended the trial of the accused persons in the case known as “February 14”, and the trial hearings of the accused in the Drydock riot events. Attending the hearings by NIHR representative falls within its role in monitoring the human rights situation related to the rights of the accused to establish justice, determining the conduct of the trial and monitoring any violations of the accused right to enjoy fair trial guarantees in accordance with the relevant international instruments. During these visits, NIHR identified a number of measures that prejudice the right of individuals to enjoy fair trial guarantees. These measures will be referred to when the right to fair trial is addressed. 29. In addition, in the context of the monitoring process, NIHR conducted a number of visits to detention and custody centers, including Hoora police station, the reform and rehabilitation center “Jaw” for men, the other center for women, and the detention centre at the Drydock. A number of these visits by the National Institution were made on the occasion of the visit by the delegation of her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons (HMIP) in the United Kingdom to the Kingdom of Bahrain during the period from April 28, 2013 to May 2, 2013. This visit is part of a program that aims to introduce the role of the Inspectorate in monitoring and inspecting prisons as a national preventive mechanism at the level of the relevant agencies and institutions in Bahrain by visiting some of detention and pre-trial detention centers as a training practice. 30. There were news posted on the social networks that at Friday dawn, August 16th, 2013, a group of detainees in the pre-trial detention center at the Drydock created 22