Police set new restrictions on lawyer visits to detainees
Detainees can now meet their lawyers for 90 minutes, twice a week, between 9:00am to 10:00pm on working days. Family visits are limited to one hour every two weeks.
20 Mar 2016, 9:00 AM
The police force set today new restrictions on family and lawyer visits to detainees held at the remand facility on Dhoonidhoo Island.
Detainees can now meet their lawyers for 90 minutes, twice a week between 9:00am to 10:00pm on working days.
Family visits are meanwhile limited to one hour every two weeks.
The police said that new rules will facilitate “more family visits” and more opportunities for lawyer visits. The “reforms” set standard procedures that police are obliged to follow.
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