'Rights during investigation - informed of belief that crime has been committed' in document 'Liechtenstein: Cooperation with the ICC '

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RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

II. Specific provisions

B. Judicial assistance; procedural provisions

Article 18
Questioning of suspects pursuant to requests from the International Criminal Court

(1) Persons questioned pursuant to a request from the International Criminal Court on suspicion of having committed a crime within its jurisdiction shall, prior thereto, be informed of the crime they are suspected of,

II. Specific provisions

D. Custody pending surrender, surrender and transit

Custody pending surrender and orders for surrender
Article 27
(a) at the request of the International Criminal Court

(2) Should there be significant doubts as to the identity of the person arrested, the judge of the princely court shall order appropriate investigations or ask the International Criminal Court to submit additional information. In any event, the judge of the princely court shall inform the accused person of the grounds of the warrant of arrest issued against him or her by the International Criminal Court and about his or her rights to challenge the surrender on account of a violation of the principle of “ne bis in idem” in article 20 of the Rome Statute or of a lack of jurisdiction on the part of the International Criminal Court pursuant to articles 17 to 19 of the Rome Statute. In addition, the person shall be informed of his or her right, pending a surrender order, to apply for interim release. The accused person shall be provided with copies (photocopies) of the arrest warrant or of the relevant allegations and provisions of the Rome Statute together with the translations of them provided by the International Criminal Court.

RELEVANT ROME STATUTE PROVISIONS

Article 55
Rights of persons during an investigation
2. Where there are grounds to believe that a person has committed a crime within the jurisdiction of the Court and that person is about to be questioned either by the Prosecutor, or by national authorities pursuant to a request made under Part 9, that person shall also have the following rights of which he or she shall be informed prior to being questioned:
(a) To be informed, prior to being questioned, that there are grounds to believe that he or she has committed a crime within the jurisdiction of the Court