1. If the public security organ or procuratorate restricts the personal freedom of your relatives and friends, according to the law, the summons or compulsory summons shall generally not exceed 12 hours, and you shall not be detained in disguised form by continuous summons or compulsory summons. If it is a criminal detention, except for three kinds of circumstances that hinder the investigation or cannot be notified, the family members or the unit where the detainee belongs shall be notified within 24 hours. Second, close relatives have the right to know. Whether it is a notice of criminal detention by telephone or email, you can ask the case handlers about the alleged charges and the location of the detention center. Third, if you are under criminal detention or arrested, only lawyers can see you. According to the existing law, family members or friends can't meet criminal suspects, only when they attend court meetings. During this period, only lawyers are entrusted to enter the detention center to meet with criminal suspects or defendants. Lawyers can enter the detention center to learn the following information: whether your relatives and friends were tortured to extract confessions, whether they were bullied or abused by fellow prisoners, provide them with legal advice and help, learn about the crimes and cases involved, feedback the concerns and hopes of relatives and friends, and their situation inside, get bail on their behalf, appeal or accuse on their behalf, and so on.
Legal basis:
Article 19 of the Criminal Procedure Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) Criminal cases shall be investigated by public security organs, except as otherwise provided by law. Crimes such as illegal detention, extorting confessions by torture, and illegal search. When the people's procuratorate conducts legal supervision over litigation activities, it finds that judicial personnel have violated citizens' rights by taking advantage of their functions and powers and damaged judicial justice, and may file a case for investigation. If a major criminal case of a functionary of a state organ under the jurisdiction of a public security organ needs to be directly accepted by a people's procuratorate, it may be placed on file for investigation upon the decision of a people's procuratorate at or above the provincial level. Cases of private prosecution are directly accepted by the people's courts.