The secretary of the Commission for Court-Appointed Lawyers of the Central Bar Association is unaware of the judiciary’s criteria for appointing court-appointed lawyers.
Mehdi Davoudzadeh, the secretary of the Commission for Court-Appointed Lawyers of the Central Bar Association, says he is unaware of the judiciary’s criteria for appointing court-appointed lawyers.
Mr. Davoudzadeh told the Etemad newspaper that throughout the recent unrest, only 3 branches of the Ray, Qarchak, and Pardis prosecutor’s offices requested court-appointed lawyers for the detainees. Among them, the Qarchak prosecutor’s office asked us to select court-appointed lawyers from the list of lawyers under Article 48, to which we responded that we have no knowledge of this list and it is under the judiciary’s control.
According to Article 48 of the Criminal Procedure Code, if a defendant is prosecuted for committing organized crimes or crimes related to internal and external security, theft, or crimes related to narcotics and psychotropic substances, they cannot meet with a lawyer until one week after the initial investigations.
