Chart Number (4)
Shows what has transpired concerning the overall number of complaints kept and
those that are pending in terms of follow up with the concerned quarters received by
the NIHR for the year 2015
Violated Right
Right to physical and moral integrity
Right to freedom and personal security
Right to guarantees of a fair trial
Right of the inmates to avail of health care and
treatment
Years
2015
9
34
13
2014
14
33
24
2013
27
21
19
11
20
5
Total
50
88
56
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Section II:
Development of the Reform and Rehabilitation Center (Joe Prison)
1- In implementation of the role of the NIHR in the field of the protection of human rights, particularly
what was stipulated in Article Number (12) of its founding law in Paragraph (e) thereof that the
NIHR has jurisdiction to “monitor cases of human rights violations, and to conduct the necessary
investigation, and to alert the relevant quarters to them whilst presenting proposals related to the
initiatives aiming to preventing such cases, and when necessary to express an opinion concerning
the position of those quarters and their reactions,” and moreover Paragraph (f) thereof stipulates
its jurisdiction to “receive complaints related to human rights and to study and investigate them
and to refer what the Institutions deems necessary to the competent quarters whilst effectively
following up on them, or to make aware those concerned with the procedures to be followed and
to help them in such process, and to help in settling them with the concerned quarters.”
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2- As relates to the field visits as one of the means of monitoring granted to the NIHR, Paragraph
(g) of Article Number (12) of the founding law provides for its jurisdiction to “undertake field
visits in accordance with adopted principles to monitor the human rights situation in the reform
institutions and detention centers, workers meetings and health and educational institutions, or
any other place suspected to be a location where human rights are violated.”
3-
number of complaints and requests for legal assistance were received by the NIHR from family
A
members of some of the inmates including allegations of exposure to beating and mistreatment
at the Reform and Rehabilitation Center (Joe Prison), in addition to what was raised in the social
media and local newspapers and the circulation of the photographs of inmates, which was at the
time known as the events of 10 March, where the NIHR rapidly proceeded to request an urgent visit
to the Center, and the Ministry of Interior responded positively, and the visit was conducted during
two days on 25 and 30 March 2015.
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