Degrading Treatment or Punishment by the Decree-Law No. 8 of 1998 has probably led the legislature to amend the Penal Code in line with the purposes of the Convention. In addition, the General Assembly of the United Nations, pursuant to Resolution No. 57/199, adopted an optional protocol to the Convention aimed at establishing a system of regular monitoring through visits by international and national bodies to places where individuals are deprived of their liberty in order to prevent torture and other forms of ill-treatment. 1.7 Although the Government of the Kingdom of Bahrain has not yet acceded to the Optional Protocol to the Convention to date, it has established and defined the mandates of the Committee on the Rights of Prisoners and Detainees under Decree No. 61 of 2013. This in line with the government’s commitments to the recommendations of the report of Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry and its voluntary pledges before the Human Rights Council in its comprehensive periodic review. The establishment of the Commissioner gives it the right to monitor prisons, detention centres, juvenile and detention care centres, and other places where it detainees may be placed, e.g. hospitals and mental clinics, in order to verify the conditions and treatment of inmates and to ensure that they are not subjected to torture or inhuman or degrading treatment. 1.8 With regard to the right to physical and moral integrity and in accordance with recommendation 1716 of the report of Bahrain Independent Commission of Fact Inquiry, which provides for “Developing an independent and impartial mechanism to hold accountable government officials who have committed unlawful acts or caused by negligence cases of murder, torture and ill-treatment of civilians, in order to take legal and disciplinary action against such persons, including those with leadership positions, whether civilian or military personnel, to whom the principle of command responsibility is proven 14