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

Armenia

Armenia - Constitution (EN) 2015

Article 26. Prohibition of Torture, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment

1. No one may be subjected to torture, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
2. Corporal punishments shall be prohibited.
3. Persons deprived of liberty shall have the right to humane treatment.

Article 63. Right to Fair Trial

1. Everyone shall have the right to a fair and public hearing of his or her case, within a reasonable time period, by an independent and impartial court.
2. The judicial proceedings or a part thereof may, in the cases and under the procedure prescribed by law, be held behind closed doors upon a court decision, for the purpose of protecting the private life of the participants of proceedings, the interests of minors or interests of justice, as well as state security, public order or morals.
3. The use of evidence obtained in violation of basic rights or that undermining the right to fair trial shall be prohibited .

Armenia - Criminal Code (EN) 2003 (2013)

General Part

Section 1.

Criminal legislation

Chapter 1.

Principles and objectives of criminal legislation

Article 11. Humanitarian principle.

2. No one shall be subjected to torture or cruel, inhuman or humiliating treatment or punishment .

Armenia - Criminal Procedure Code (EN) 1998 (2021)

Article 450. Torture

1. Intentionally inflicting severe physicial pain or severe mental suffering on any person by an official or at his/her instigation, upon his/her order or with his/her knowledge for the purpose of obtaining from that person or a third person information or confession or for punishing for an act which that person or a third person has committed or is suspected or accused of having committed, as well as for intimidating or coercing that person or a third person to act or abstain from acting or for any reason based on discrimination of any kind —
shall be punished by imprisonment for a term of four to eight years.

Armenia - Law on Treatment of Arrestees and Detainees (EN) 2002

CHAPTER 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

Article 2. General Principles for Keeping Arrestees Under Arrest and Detainees Under Detention

It shall be forbidden to use physical violence, as well as inhuman or degrading actions towards arrestees or detainees.

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;