NIHR’s Committee on Detention & Facilities Visitation convenes its 16th Videoconference Meeting
21 Jul 2020
The National Institution for Human Rights (NIHR)’s Committee on Detention & Facilities Visitation convened its 16th teleconference virtual meeting, under the chairpersonship of Dr. Malallah Alhammadi and membership of Mr. Khaled Alshaer,
Dr. Fawzeya Alsaleh and Mrs. Deena Alladhi, where the Committee reviewed its previous resolutions and recommendations and the actions taken thereupon and discussed its visit to the Jaw Correction and Rehabilitation Centre to investigate allegations on the living conditions therein. It also reviewed the results of its two visits to Foreign Male and Female Shelter and Deportation Centres, which indicated that the inmates of the two centers practice all human rights guaranteed under the Constitution and the relevant international and regional instruments, as revealed by interviews made by the Committee members with inmates of various nationalities. It was found that individuals from some communities in the said two centres were unable to travel to their countries due to the spread of the Coronavirus (Covid-19), despite the great and ongoing efforts made by the general administration of these centres in coordination with the concerned embassies regarding their deportation. However, things are still the same, while other communities leave to their countries according to a specific system per week in coordination with their embassies.
The Committee then discussed its next planned visits to the correction and rehabilitation centres and shelter, health and social care houses during this exceptional period that the State is going through, with a view to understanding the living, humanitarian and human rights conditions of their inmates, and ensuring their enjoyment of basic rights guaranteed to them under the Constitution and relevant international and regional instruments.
The Committee also discussed conducting a number of visits to workers’ housing to understand the conditions of migrant workers and ensure that they enjoy an adequate standard of living and the various human rights guaranteed to them under the provisions of the Constitution and international and regional human rights related to human and expatriate labor rights.
