Article 4. Protected persons
On protection of victims, witnesses and other participants in a criminal case (LRU-515-son) · Date: 14.01.2019 · In force
Protected persons shall include:
1) a victim and her legal representative;
2) a witness;
3) a public prosecutor and a public defender;
4) a suspect, a defendant, a person on trial, their defenders and legal representatives;
5) a convicted person, an acquitted person, a person against whom criminal case is dismissed;
6) a civil claimant, a civil defendant and their representatives;
7) an expert, a specialist, a translator and an attesting witness.
Protected persons may also include family members and close relatives of persons specified in Part One of this Article.
Protection measures may also be applied, before initiation of a criminal case, in relation to an applicant, eye-witness of a crime, or other persons who contributed to prevention or solution of a crime.
