Armenia

Criminal Procedure Code of the Republic of Armenia

GENERAL PART

Section V. COERCIVE MEASURES

CHAPTER 18. PREVENTIVE MEASURES TO SECURE THE APPEARENCE

Article 137. Arrest

1. To arrest a person means to detain a person under arrest in the places and under conditions prescribed by law.

2. The arrested shall not be detained in places allotted for detainment for more than 3 days except for the cases when his delivery to the investigatory isolation ward or other place prescribed by law for detainment of the arrested is impossible due to the lack of transportation means.

3. The inquiry body, investigator, prosecutor and the court have the right to instruct the administration of the investigatory isolation ward to detain the accused persons of the same criminal case or of several criminal cases related to each other in separate wards, to prevent the communication of the accused with other arrested persons as well as to give other instructions which do not contradict the procedure prescribed by law about the detainment of the arrested. The given instructions are mandatory for the administration of the investigattory isolation ward.

4. Upon delivering an order for arrest the court shall also decide on the admissibility of the release of the accused on bail; if the court determines pre-trial release is permissible, it shall determine the amount of the bail. Later, upon a petition being presented by the defense, the court may reconsider its decision concerning the inadmissibility and the amount of bail.

5. The order of the court about the execution of the arrest as a preventive measure may be appealed against to the court of a higher instance.

Keywords

Provisional arrest
Arrest
Arrest for national proceedings
Provisional arrest for national proceedings



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