laws and regulations
Article 34 of the Criminal Procedure Law If a criminal suspect or defendant fails to entrust a defender due to financial difficulties or other reasons, he or his near relatives may apply to a legal aid institution. To meet the conditions of legal aid, legal aid institutions shall appoint lawyers to defend them.
The procuratorate is a state organ generally established in all countries in the world, exercising the state procuratorial power. China's Constitution stipulates: "People's Republic of China (PRC) People's Procuratorate is the state's legal supervision organ." China has established special people's procuratorates such as the Supreme People's Procuratorate, local people's procuratorates at various levels and military procuratorates.
People's procuratorates exercise procuratorial power over major criminal cases that endanger national security, public security, and infringe upon citizens' personal rights and democratic rights; Examining cases investigated by public security organs and deciding whether to arrest, prosecute or not to prosecute; Prosecuting and supporting public prosecution in criminal cases; Supervise the legality of the activities of public security organs, people's courts, prisons and detention centers.
The Supreme People's Procuratorate leads the local people's procuratorates at all levels in China. This top-down arrangement embodies the superior-subordinate relationship of procuratorial organs and its centralized and unified characteristics, which is significantly different from the superior-subordinate relationship of people's courts. In order to maintain the unity of the national legal system, the procuratorial organs must be integrated and have strong centralization and unity. So as to handle cases in accordance with the procedures stipulated in the Criminal Procedure Law.
Just as the people's courts independently exercise state judicial power, the people's procuratorates independently exercise procuratorial power according to law, without interference from any administrative organ, social organization or individual. The staff of the people's procuratorates at all levels must be loyal to the truth, to the law, to the socialist cause, to serve the people wholeheartedly, and to all citizens, all are equal in the application of the law.