'Rights during investigation - arbitrary arrest or detention and deprivation of liberty' in document 'Hungary - Fundamental Law'

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RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

FREEDOM AND RESPONSIBILITY

Article IV

(2) No one shall be deprived of liberty except for reasons defined in an Act and in accordance with a procedure defined in an Act. Life imprisonment without parole may only be imposed for the commission of intentional and violent criminal offences.

FREEDOM AND RESPONSIBILITY

Article IV

(3) Any person suspected of having committed a criminal offence and taken into detention shall, as soon as possible, be released or brought before a court. The court shall be obliged to hear the person brought before it and shall immediately make a decision with a written reasoning to release or to arrest that person.

RELEVANT ROME STATUTE PROVISIONS

Article 55
Rights of persons during an investigation
1. In respect of an investigation under this Statute, a person:
(d) Shall not be subjected to arbitrary arrest or detention, and shall not be deprived of his or her liberty except on such grounds and in accordance with such procedures as are established in this Statute