MARTIN ZARBABYAN’S REVIEW IN THE ADVOKATSKAYA GAZETA
Counsel and Attorney of White Collar Defense & Investigations Practice Martin Zarbabyan have analyzed the Report of the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation for 2024 and prepared the Review for the Advokatskaya Gazeta on the topic “The Report Inspires Professional Optimism”, in which he have noticed the following key issues:
- Failure of law enforcement officials to respect the rights of participants in criminal proceeding;
- Inequality of participants in criminal procedure and narrow procedural tools of the defense;
- Excessiveness of the application of detention;
- Duration of detention at the trial stage of criminal proceedings;
- Accusatory bias;
- Unmotivated refusals by the defense to conduct a repeated (additional) examination and to attach expert opinions to the case materials;
- Untimely response of the law enforcement officer to statements about a crime.
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