Bahrain MPs say yes to sending prisoners back home
Manama : MPs yesterday voted for sending non-Bahraini prisoners of certain nationalities to their homelands, so they can spend their jail terms close to their families.
As reported previously, the proposal seeks exchanging prisoners between certain countries and the Kingdom, so they can spend their jail terms in their homelands and near their families,” as stated by the presenters of the proposal.
It was initially presented by MP Jamal Dawood in 2015. “It’s aimed at achieving social and psychological stability of convicts, providing them with humanitarian aid by allowing their families to visit them in their countries, rehabilitate and reform them and combat evading judicial verdicts,” he said.
The proposal was approved by the Council’s Legislative and Legal Affairs Committee in the past few weeks.
The panel said in a recently issued report that it consulted different official authorities in this regard including the Foreign Affairs and Interior Ministries.
Majority of MPs voted in favour of the proposal, which is now referred to the Shura Council for further studying.
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