Trials in absentia

Mauritius

Mauritius - Constitution 1968 (2016) EN

''CHAPTER II. PROTECTION OF FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS OF THE INDIVIDUAL, 10. Provisions to secure protection of law''
2.Every person who is charged with a criminal offence(...)
f. shall be permitted to have without payment the assistance of an interpreter if he cannot understand the language used at the trial of the offence, and, except with his own consent, the trial shall not take place in his absence unless he so conducts himself as to render the continuance of the proceedings in his presence impracticable and the court has ordered him to be removed and, the trial to proceed in his absence.

Mauritius - Constitution 1968 EN

CHAPTER II — PROTECTION OF FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS OF THE INDIVIDUAL

10. Provisions to secure protection of law

(2) Every person who is charged with a criminal offence —

(f) and, except with his own consent, the trial shall not take place in his absence unless he so conducts himself as to render the continuance of the proceedings in his presence impracticable and the court has ordered him to be removed and the trial to proceed in his absence.

Rome Statute

Article 63 Trial in the presence of the accused

1. The accused shall be present during the trial.