Article 17. Ensuring the Right to Defense
(1) While examining the injured party and the witnesses, the criminal investigative body shall not be entitled to prohibit the presence of the attorney invited by the person examined to represent him/her.
Article 66. Rights and Obligations of the Accused or the Defendant
(2) The accused or the defendant, in line with the provisions of this Code, shall have the right:
17) to request the examination of prosecution witnesses and to insist on summoning defense witnesses under the same conditions as prosecution witnesses;
1. In the determination of any charge, the accused shall be entitled to a public hearing, having regard to the provisions of this Statute, to a fair hearing conducted impartially, and to the following minimum guarantees, in full equality:
(e) To examine, or have examined, the witnesses against him or her and to obtain the attendance and examination of witnesses on his or her behalf under the same conditions as witnesses against him or her. The accused shall also be entitled to raise defences and to present other evidence admissible under this Statute;