CONSTITUTION OF BOTSWANA
CHAPTER II - Protection of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms of the Individual (ss 3-19)
10. Provisions to secure protection of law
(2) Every person who is charged with a criminal offence-
and except with his or her own consent the trial shall not take place in his or her absence unless he or she so conducts himself or herself as to render the continuance of the proceedings in his or her presence impracticable and the court has ordered him or her to be removed and the trial to proceed in his or her absence.
Trials in absentia
Rights during trial - present at trial
Disruption of trial - removal of the accused
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