ARTICULO 8.- Derechos del detenido. Todo detenido deberá ser informado inmediatamente de sus derechos en forma que le sean comprensibles, especialmente que puede proveerse de un defensor, el cual podrá estar presente en todas las diligencias policiales y judiciales. El detenido no podrá ser obligado a declarar sino ante autoridad judicial competente.
ARTICULO 12.- Derecho de defensa. La defensa de la persona y sus derechos son inviolables. Nadie podrá ser condenado, ni privado de sus derechos, sin haber sido citado, oído y vencido en proceso legal ante juez o tribunal competente y preestable cido .
Ninguna persona puede ser juzgada por Tribunales Especiales o secretos, ni por procedimientos que no estén preestablecidos legalmente.
2. Where there are grounds to believe that a person has committed a crime within the jurisdiction of the Court and that person is about to be questioned either by the Prosecutor, or by national authorities pursuant to a request made under Part 9, that person shall also have the following rights of which he or she shall be informed prior to being questioned:
(c) To have legal assistance of the person's choosing, or, if the person does not have legal assistance, to have legal assistance assigned to him or her, in any case where the interests of justice so require, and without payment by the person in any such case if the person does not have sufficient means to pay for it; and