The 3rd GCC Inmate Week today opened under the slogan: "Take My Hand Toward a Better Tomorrow". Interior Ministry Undersecretary, Major-General Khalid Salem Al Absi patronised the event, scheduled to run until Wednesday (December10).
He extended thanks to Interior Minister Lieutenant-General Shaikh Rashid bin Abdullah Al- Khalifa for his wise directives to adopt latest rehabilitation standards of inmates to protect their rights and improve all services and programmes to meet international criteria.
He hailed the role of the Reformation and Rehabilitation Directorate in enhancing the positive attitudes of inmates and the correction facilities to be good members in society after they serve their sentences.
At the beginning of the ceremony, the Director of Reformation and Rehabilitation, Colonel Nasser Bukhait delivered a speech, highlighting targeted goals which are achieved through reformation programmes and activities, mainly Quran learning and memorizing.
He said that 153 male and 6 female inmates took part last year in the 19th Grand Quran Recitation Competition. 58 male inmates and 6 female inmates won, while five inmates memorized the whole Quran and 75 inmates memorized parts of it. He said that six inmates from the Reformation and Rehabilitation Center and 10 detainees converted to Islam.