Timor-Leste

Código do Processo Penal de Timor-Leste

CRIMINAL PROCEDURE CODE

PART I
ON THE GENERAL PART

TITLE V
ON PROOF

CHAPTER I
GENERAL PROVISIONS

Article 110
Absolute prohibition of evidence

1. Proof obtained through torture or duress in general or by offences against the physical or moral integrity of a person is absolutely prohibited.

2. Offensive to the physical or moral integrity of a person is any proof obtained, even with the consent of the person concerned, by :

(a) impairing the free will or the freedom of decision through mistreatment, bodily harm, the employment of methods of any nature, hypnosis or the use of cruel or misleading means ;
(b) impairing, by any means, the ability to recall or to reason ;
(c) the use of force in cases other than the ones, and beyond the limits, permitted by law ;
(d) threatening with a legally inadmissible measure, including refusing or restricting the a benefit contemplated in the law ;
(e) promising a legally inadmissible advantage.

Keywords

Fair trial standards
Rights during investigation - not to be subjected to any form of coercion, duress or threat, to torture or to any other form of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment



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