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.
Whether it is for relatives and friends, or for arrested criminal suspects and defendants, it is most conducive to protecting their legitimate rights and interests to find a lawyer to intervene at the first time. When a family member is under criminal detention, under normal circumstances, the organ taking detention measures will notify the family member in time. At this time, you can also visit people who are under criminal detention, but the object of visit can only be hired lawyers, not non-lawyers.
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According to China law, criminal suspects also have the right to hire lawyers to defend themselves. Generally speaking, a criminal suspect can hire a lawyer for himself from the day of the first interrogation or compulsory measures. The hired lawyer can then exercise the right to meet and communicate according to law.
If a criminal suspect in a detention center wants to meet a lawyer, he/she needs to provide materials that meet the requirements of the law. Generally speaking, these materials include lawyer's practice certificate, law firm's certificate (lawyer's criminal procedure format file 8), power of attorney (lawyer's criminal procedure format file 5) and official letter of legal aid (letter of designated defense issued by legal aid center).
According to the provisions of China's criminal procedure law, in addition to the defense entrusted by the criminal suspect himself, only the guardian or close relatives of the criminal suspect can act as the client-the "close relatives" here refer to the parents, spouses, children or brothers and sisters of the criminal suspect. When going through the interview procedure for the first time, the client needs to provide a copy of ID card, marriage certificate or household registration book and other materials that can prove that the client and the suspect are close relatives. When the materials are ready and the lawyer's interview formalities are completed, the suspect can meet the lawyer smoothly.
As for the fees for seeing a lawyer, we have to analyze the specific problems. Generally speaking, most lawyers charge 2000 to 3000 yuan for a meeting. If the defense is difficult, the lawyer's fee will be higher.