NIHR attends military court hearings

Manama : The National Institution for Human Rights (NIHR) has stated that its team attended all the sessions of the High Military Court of the first instance in the “Terrorism 1 2017) case.

“The NIHR’s team attended the hearings to ensure that all fair trial guarantees were provided in accordance with the standards set in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and other international and regional human rights instruments and declarations,” the NIHR said in the statement.

“The NIHR wanted to make sure that the court hearings were in line with the guarantees stipulated in Bahrain’s Constitution, the Law on the Judiciary, the Code of Criminal Procedure and other relevant national legislation, as applied to both the military judiciary and the civil judiciary,” it said in the statement.