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The head of state signed amendments to the Criminal procedural code that establish the investigator a hard time – three days, not a minute more – during which he needs to change the measure of restraint for a severely ill prisoner. The countdown will begin from the moment the investigator receives the medical report.
If the case is already submitted to the court, the decision on changing the measure of restraint (that is, the release of the defendant from the detention center) must take the court. The judge in this, too, will only have three days.
There is a scary list of diseases that keep a person in prison is impossible. To confirm the diagnosis should medical examination. But after the doctors will say its word, finally the fate of the prison must decide the appropriate authorities.
A similar rule applies to detainees in jail, and convicts in the colonies. But the order of release from prison or the colonies is regulated by different acts, since the status of such prisoners are different. Human rights activists complained that in the past the courts sometimes do not have time to free man – until the courts resolved his question, he was dying. According to experts, the problem was in the fact that the police did not hurry to release the man, buying time – because of the hard deadline on the decision they had.
Now, the documents will stay under wraps at the investigator.