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

Latvia

Latvia - Constitution 1922 (2018) EN

Everyone has the right to liberty and security of person. No one may be deprived of or have their liberty restricted, otherwise than in accordance with law.

Article 95. [Human Dignity]
The State shall protect human honourhonor and dignity. Torture or other cruel or degrading treatment of human beings is prohibited. No one shall be subjected to inhuman or degrading punishment .

Latvia - Criminal Procedure Code 2005 (2022) EN

Section 13. Prohibition of Torture and Debasement
(1) Debasement, blackmail, torture, the threatening of a person with torture or violence, or the use of violence shall not be allowed in criminal proceedings.

(3) In order to overcome the physical resistance of a person, the performer of the procedural action or, upon his or her invitation, employees of the State police may apply physical force in exceptional cases, without needlessly inflicting pain on such person or humiliating such person.

Section 130. Admissibility of Evidence

(2) Information regarding facts that has been acquired in the following manner shall be recognised as inadmissible and unusable in proving:

1) using violence, threats, blackmail, fraud, or duress;

Section 139. General Provisions for the Performance of Investigative Actions

(3) It is prohibited to use violence, threats, or lies against a person who participates in an investigative action, as well as other illegal actions, actions that do not comply with moral norms, or actions that endanger the life or health of the person or that injure the dignity of the person. A person of the opposite sex, with the exception of medical practitioners, is prohibited from participating in or performing investigative actions that are related to the denuding of the body of a person.

Section 697. Reasons for a Refusal to Extradite a Person

(2) The extradition of a person shall not be admissible, if:

2) the request for the extradition of the person is related to the purpose of commencing criminal prosecution of such person or punishing such persons due to his or her race, religion affiliation, nationality, or political views, or if there are sufficient grounds to believe that the rights of the person may be violated due to the referred to reasons;

Section 697. Reasons for a Refusal to Extradite a Person

(2) The extradition of a person shall not be admissible, if:

6) the foreign country does not provide a sufficient bail that such country will not impose the death sentence on such person and execute such sentence;
7) the person may be threatened with torture in the foreign country;

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;