What is the scope of criminal defense defenders?

Regarding criminal defense, the range of defenders includes: 1. A lawyer refers to a practitioner who has obtained the qualification of lawyer according to legal procedures and provided legal services to the society after registration. Although qualified as a lawyer but not registered, he may not be entrusted by a lawyer as a defender. Foreigners and stateless criminal suspects who entrust lawyers to defend can only entrust lawyers in China as defenders. 2. People's organizations or personnel recommended by the unit where the criminal suspect or defendant belongs. In view of the fact that the current team of lawyers in our country can not fully meet the actual needs, in order to effectively safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of criminal suspects and defendants, mass organizations such as trade unions, women's federations, the Communist Youth League Committee, and student unions, as well as the units where criminal suspects and defendants work, can recommend citizens to serve as defenders in criminal cases. 3. Guardians, relatives and friends of criminal suspects and defendants may also accept the entrustment of criminal suspects and defendants to act as their defenders. In fact, the revised Criminal Procedure Law has expanded the range of options for criminal suspects and defendants to entrust defenders, because all relatives and friends except guardians can accept the entrustment of criminal suspects, defendants and their legal representatives as defenders. This is very beneficial for criminal suspects and defendants to entrust defenders in time, solve the problem of difficulty in hiring lawyers in time and effectively, and safeguard their legitimate rights and interests.