GENERAL PART

Section Three: PARTIES AND OTHER PERSONS PARTICIPATING IN CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS

CHAPTER 8. DEFENDANT PARTY

Article 63. The Rights and Obligations of the Suspect

2. 4) to have a defense attorney from the moment of presentation to him/her the resolution of the body of criminal prosecution, on detention, the protocol of detention or the resolution on selection of the precautionary measure; to refuse from defense attorney and to conduct the defense himself/herself;

GENERAL PART

Section Three: PARTIES AND OTHER PERSONS PARTICIPATING IN CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS

CHAPTER 8. DEFENDANT PARTY

Article 65. The Rights and Obligations of the Accused

2. 3) to have a defense attorney from the moment of indictment, to refuse from the defense attorney and to defend himself/herself;

GENERAL PART

Section Three: PARTIES AND OTHER PERSONS PARTICIPATING IN CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS

CHAPTER 8. DEFENDANT PARTY

Article 70. Invitation, Appointment, Substitution of Defense Attorney and other Grounds of his/her Participation in the Criminal Trial

4. In cases, prescribed by Point 2, Part 3 of this Article, the body, conducting the criminal trial, is entitled to offer the suspect or the accused to invite another defense attorney themselves.

5. The body of inquiry, the investigator, the prosecutor, the court have the right to offer the suspect and the accused to invite another defense attorney themselves, or to appoint the defense attorney through the Union of Lawyers of the Republic of Armenia in the following cases:

1) upon impossibility of the defense attorney to arrive for the participation in the first interrogation of the suspect or the accused, taken to imprisonment, within 24 hours from the moment of acquiring the status of the defense attorney or in the case of not arrival within the same time frame;
2) upon impossibility of the participation of the defense attorney in the criminal case proceeding for more than 3 days.

Article 67
Rights of the accused
1. In the determination of any charge, the accused shall be entitled to a public hearing, having regard to the provisions of this Statute, to a fair hearing conducted impartially, and to the following minimum guarantees, in full equality:
(b) To have adequate time and facilities for the preparation of the defence and to communicate freely with counsel of the accused's choosing in confidence