In addition, during martial law, law enforcement officers were allowed to conduct night searches in the absence of attesting witnesses.
Amendments to the Code of Criminal Procedure came into force in Ukraine, according to which the possible term was tripled detentions citizens without a court order.
As the law provides 2201-IX, which was adopted by the Verkhovna Rada on April 14 and entered into force in May, the period of detention of a person without a decision of an investigating judge, a court or a decision of the head of the prosecutor’s office during martial law cannot exceed 216 hours or 9 days.
“A person detained without a decision of an investigating judge, a court or a decision of the head of the prosecutor’s office during martial law, no later than two hundred and sixteen hours from the moment of detention, must be released or delivered to the investigating judge, the court or the head of the prosecutor’s office for consideration of a petition for election in relation to him preventive measures,” the law says.
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Prior to the amendments, the detention of a person without a court decision was possible for a period not exceeding 72 hours (3 days).
In addition, law enforcement officers were allowed to conduct night (from 22 to 06 hours) searches in the absence of attesting witnesses.
“When conducting a search or inspection of a person’s housing or other possessions, a search of a person, if the involvement of witnesses is objectively impossible or is associated with a potential danger to their life or health, the relevant investigative (search) actions are carried out without involving witnesses. In this case, the course and results of the search … are recorded by available technical means by continuous video recording,” the law says.
As UNIAN wrote, proceedings were opened in Kyiv against a man who called the “hot” line of the Deposit Guarantee Fund for Individuals and justified the war of the Russian Federation against Ukraine.
And in the Odessa region a henchman of the occupiers was detained, who passed information about the Ukrainian military to the enemy.
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