BackThe Bahrain Independent Ombudsman Office has released its fourth Annual Report. The Ombudsman Office has an important role to play in ensuring the delivery of human rights centred policing services in Bahrain as it continued to work hard and operate in a challenging environment. The Ombudsman Office concentrate its efforts to portect its investigative integrity and independence and to ensure that justice is delivered in a faithful manner.
In 2016/2017, the Ombudsman Office received 1156 complaints and assistance requests. This number brings the total received by the Ombudsman Office in its first four years of operation to 3298.
The Ombudsman Office's role is to investigate serious allegations of human rights violations. The fourth annual report presents case studies and illustrates the types of issues that were the subject of the complaint and assistance requests to the Ombudsman Office and its approach of the investigation and decision-making.
In conclusion, the Ombudsman says that his Office "continues to work in a challenging local and international context and we are always willing to learn. But we are proud of what has been achieved over the last four years through sheer hard work and commitment to our belief that we can make a difference. It is a great privilege to work on such an important missions and my staff and I never forget this."
More information on the fourth Annual Report can also be found below in the Executive Summary.
Source: Independent Ombudsman Office for the Ministry of Interior, Bahrain
