Meeting

NIHR’s Committee on Civil and Political Rights convenes its 5th Regular Meeting

17 Nov 2017

The National Institution for Human Rights (NIHR)’s Committee on Civil and Political Rights convened its 5th regular meeting under the chairpersonship of Dr. Badr Mohamed Adel and membership of Mr. Ahmed Mahdi Al-Haddad and Mrs. Widad Ridha Mousawi. The meeting was held at the NIHR’s headquarters in the Seef district.

During the meeting, the Committee discussed the views of the NIHR’s General Secretariat referred to it by the Council of Representatives regarding a number of themes, namely the draft law to ratify an agreement between the Kingdom of Bahrain and the Russian Federation on the extradition of criminals accompanying the Royal Decree No. 30 of 2017 and the proposal of a law to amend some of the provisions Decree-Law No. 15 of 1976 on the promulgation of the Penal Code by adding two new articles No. 309 vis and 309 vis 1, where the Committee took necessary action with regard thereof in preparation for sending it to the concerned authority.