The secretary of the Commission for Court-Appointed Lawyers of the Central Bar Association is unaware of the judiciary’s criteria for appointing court-appointed lawyers.
Mehdi Davoudzadeh, the secretary of the Commission for Court-Appointed Lawyers of the Central Bar Association, says he is unaware of the judiciary’s criteria for appointing court-appointed lawyers.
Mr. Davoudzadeh told the Etmad newspaper that during the entire course of the recent unrest, only three branches of the Rey, Qarchak, and Pardis prosecutor’s offices requested court-appointed lawyers from us for the detainees. Among these, the Qarchak prosecutor’s office asked us to select the court-appointed lawyers from the list of lawyers under Article 48, to which we replied that we have no knowledge of this list and it is under the judiciary’s control.
According to Article 48 of the Criminal Procedure Code, if the accused is prosecuted for committing organized crimes or crimes related to internal and external security, theft, or crimes related to drugs and psychotropic substances, they are not allowed to meet with a lawyer until one week after the initial investigations.