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Rights of a detained person
Meaning and relationship to your legal situation.
What it means
Safeguards including understandable information about detention and allegations, legal assistance, silence, communication, interpretation and other statutory assistance. Their exercise must reflect the circumstances and be properly recorded.
Legal reference
Spanish Criminal Procedure Act · art. 520
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