6. Moreover, the National Institution expressed its condemnation concurrently of the use of violence
against the Police, and its intense rejection of those abominable violent actions which targeted the
life of citizens, and called upon the members of society to be vigilant and not to be drawn to the
calls for violence, while adhering to peaceful action and defending legitimate demands by available
legal means guaranteed by the Law, alongside adhering to national unity and promoting the values
of peaceful coexistence between the segments and components of Bahraini society, and to be distant
from all that may intensify hatred and deepen divisions, and it also called on the competent quarters
to necessarily apply the law in a manner circumscribing resorting to violence and strive to encourage
peaceful activity in the exercise of freedom of opinion and the right to expression guaranteed by the
Constitution of the Kingdom of Bahrain and the relevant national and international legislations.
7. Moreover, it issued a statement deploring the events related to the injury of 31 security personnel
and the death of a number of citizens in one of the areas of the Kingdom, such during the police
forces implementing a security operation aiming to remove a number of legal violations which
were a hindrance to the movement of citizens and which led to a hampering of their interests while
constituting a risk to their safety, and it lauded the efforts of the security forces in restoring security
and safety.
8. At a related level, the National Institution issued a statement in which it expressed its intense
condemnation of the explosion targeting the life of security men in the course of their performance
of duty in one of the villages of the Kingdom, which led to the death of a policeman and the serious
injury of two others, where the Institution renewed its extreme condemnation of such crimes
given that they constitute a gross violation of human rights, while emphasizing the importance
of effecting a of balance of sorts between fighting terrorism and respecting and protecting human
rights and public freedoms to ensure the desired solidarity between the State and society, which
is inescapably essential for the success of the efforts of combatting terrorism in implementation of
Security Council Resolution (1373).
9. In the same context related to the protection of human rights, the National Institution attended
a number of trial sessions which had an echo in public affairs, including attending the sessions
of trial of three persons accused of gaining money without licensing and money laundering, and
also attended the trial sessions in which an individual who accused of transmitting false news,
statements and rumours concerning the domestic situation in Bahrain through his tweets on Twitter,
in addition to another case where he was accused of transmitting false news and statements and
intentionally spreading sensationalist propaganda in times of war which does harm to military
preparations and operations, and insulting publicly an official quarter, through posting a number
of blogs on Twitter.
10. The National Institution emphasizes in this regard, that its attendance of the trial sessions was
for purposes of being informed and to ascertain the soundness of the judicial procedures and the
achievement of justice in the trial of the accused, and is of the view that the procedures of the
competent court and its dealing with the proceedings of the trial- insofar as the cases it attended-
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