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Mutual pact proposed on Indian and Bahraini prisoners

MANAMA, February 24, 2015

Indian prisoners in Bahrain could soon be allowed to complete their sentences in their home country.

The proposal is being reviewed by the Cabinet and would also allow Bahraini prisoners in India to complete custodial terms here, said a report in the Gulf Daily News (GDN), our sister publication.

Information Affairs Minister and official government spokesman Isa Al Hammadi told a press conference after the weekly session yesterday that the mutual agreement would be studied by the Cabinet's ministerial committee for legal affairs.

"The Cabinet has accepted the proposal as a concept, but it still needs a lot of study from the committee concerned to address it from all aspects," he said.

"It can't be given approval without statistics on the number of Indians serving sentences in Bahraini prisons, which we don't have, and there are terms that we need to look into regarding implementation arrangements.

"But we believe it would be good to have Indian prisoners getting rehabilitation in their own country, while having Bahrainis serving sentences in Indian prisons coming here."

Sources told the GDN that a large number of Asian expatriates were serving sentences in Bahraini jails.

"It is not yet clear whether the prisoners would be moved while in jail and facing trial and then have their case addressed once they go back, or when verdicts are issued," Al Hammadi exclusively told the GDN.

"The logistics part is also an issue, given the possible numbers of Indian prisoners and the matter of transport costs, which are not yet defined, and which country would be shouldering it.

"Again the agreement is in its early stages, let's say step one, and there are several details that need to be answered before we can give it the go-ahead.

"But it is in the right direction of mutual co-operation between both countries in numerous fields." - TradeArabia News Service




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