Rights during investigation - not to be subjected to any form of coercion, duress or threat, to torture or to any other form of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment

The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

Macedonia - Constitution 1991 (2019) EN

Article 11
The human right to physical and moral dignity is irrevocable.
Any form of torture, or inhuman or humiliating conduct or punishment, is prohibited. Forced labour is prohibited .

Macedonia - Criminal Code 1996 (2018) EN

Torture and other Inhuman or Degrading Acts or Punishments
Article 142
(1) A person who while performing his duty, or the one inducted by an official
person or by official person approval, applies force, threat or some other unalloyed
means or unalloyed manner , with the intention of extorting a confession or some
other statement from an accused, a witness, an expert or from some other person,
or cause a severe physical or mental suffering with the purpose of
punishment for a crime or is suspected to have done, or treat or force another
person to give up from some right, or cause suffering originating from discrimination, shall be punished
with imprisonment from one to five years.
(2) If the crime from paragraph (1) has caused severe bodily injuries and other
extremely hard consequences to the damaged or the criminal act has been
perpetrated due to hatred, the perpetrator shall be punished with imprisonment of a
minimum of four years

Macedonia - Criminal Procedure Code 2010 EN

PART ONE GENERAL PROVISIONS
Chapter I BASIC PRINCIPLES

Article 10
It is forbidden and punishable to extract a confession i.e. a statement from the accused or from other persons who have participated in the procedure .

PART TWO COURSE OF PROCEDURE
Chapter XVII MEASURES FOR SECURING PRESENCE OF THE ACCUSED AND FOR SUCCESSFUL PERFORMANCE OF THE CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
9. Procedure with the detained

Article 193
(1) During the detention, the personality and dignity of the accused must not be offended.
(2) Against the detained must be applied only the limitations necessary to avoid escape and an agreement which could be harmful for a successful performance of the procedure. (3)Persons of opposite sex cannot be locked in the same room. It is determined with a regulation that persons who have participated in the same crime or persons which are serving sentence cannot be put in to the same room with detained persons. If it is possible, persons which committed crimes again will not be put into the same room with arrested persons on whom they might have bad influence

Article 194
(1) The detained persons have a right to an eight- hour continuous rest within 24 hours. Apart from that, they will be allowed to walk in an open area within the prison for at least two hours a day.
(2) The detained have a right to be fed on their own expense, to wear their own clothes and to use their own bed linen, at their expense to provide books, newspapers, magazines and other things appropriate to their habits and needs, unless it is harmful for the successful conduct of the procedure. The body which conducts the investigation decides on that.
(3) The detained may be used to cater for the maintenance of the hygiene of the room where he is settled. The detainee maintains the hygiene within the detention room If the detained requests from the investigating judge i.e. Chairman of the Council, with the agreement of the management of the prison, it may be allowed for the detained to work within the prison on chores which suit his psychical and physical abilities, under the condition that it would not be harmful for the conduct of the procedure.
(4) The Minister of Justice by subordinate legislation will determine the way of the acceptance and deploying of the detainees in the penitentiary.
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PART TWO COURSE OF PROCEDURE
Chapter XVIII INVESTIGATING ACTS
4. Examination of the accused

Article 210
(6) The examination must be conducted in the manner that the personality of the accused is fully respected.
(7) Against the accused must not be used force, threats or other similar means (Article 251, paragraph 2) in order to extort his statement or confession .

Rome Statute

Article 55 Rights of persons during an investigation

1. In respect of an investigation under this Statute, a person:

(b) Shall not be subjected to any form of coercion, duress or threat, to torture or to any other form of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment;