Criminal detention is a compulsory measure taken against criminal suspects before trial, with the purpose of temporarily restricting their personal freedom and facilitating the judicial organs to investigate cases.
During criminal detention, relatives of criminal suspects are not allowed to visit. If a lawyer is entrusted to provide legal aid, the lawyer can meet the criminal suspect and ask about the charges. However, a lawyer meeting is not a visit.
When a lawyer meets a criminal suspect or defendant in custody, he must be entrusted by a close relative of the detainee, and he must also hold a lawyer's practice license and a letter of introduction from a law firm. The entrusted lawyer has the right to know the charges charged by the criminal suspect from the investigation organ, to meet the criminal suspect in custody and to know the relevant information from the criminal suspect. When a lawyer meets a criminal suspect in custody, the investigation organ may send personnel to be present according to the circumstances and needs of the case. When a lawyer meets a criminal suspect in custody in a case involving state secrets, it shall be approved by the investigation organ.
Legal objectivity:
Measures for the Implementation of the Regulations on Detention Centers in People's Republic of China (PRC) Article 34 The communication between criminals and their close relatives living in China shall be approved by the case-handling organ, and the request for a meeting shall be approved by the competent bureau or director of the public security organ or the state security organ at or above the county level. Meetings and correspondence between criminals and their close relatives living in Hongkong, Macao, Taiwan Province Province and foreign countries, or between criminals of foreign nationality and their close relatives, guardians and members of embassies and consulates in China must be approved by the public security departments and bureaus of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government or the national security departments and bureaus. Article 35 of the Measures for Implementing the Regulations of People's Republic of China (PRC) Detention Center shall not meet with criminals more than once a month, each meeting shall not exceed half an hour, and each meeting shall not exceed three close relatives. During the meeting, there should be case handlers and guards at the scene to monitor.