The lawyer replied:
The current law of our country does not stipulate the right to silence. On the contrary, the Criminal Procedure Law stipulates that criminal suspects should truthfully answer the questions of investigators.
However, we have the right to refuse to answer questions irrelevant to this case. The same is true of administrative cases. According to the procedure of handling administrative cases by public security organs, the interviewee must provide evidence and testimony truthfully, and has the right to refuse to answer questions irrelevant to the case. Matching, for suspects who truthfully confess, "confession and leniency" used to be a policy, and now the law clearly stipulates it. For example, the criminal law stipulates that although a criminal suspect does not have the prescribed circumstances of surrender, he can be given a lighter punishment if he truthfully confesses his crimes; By truthfully confessing one's crimes, particularly serious consequences are avoided and the punishment can be mitigated.
In addition, China's current law does not clearly stipulate the right of lawyers to be present, so it is inappropriate to say nothing before my lawyer arrives.