会见外国人刑事嫌疑人手续要求
关于会见外国人犯罪嫌疑人手续要求
Procedural papers needed when a lawyer visit foreign
criminal suspect detained
根据中华人民共和国刑事诉讼法和其他相关法律法规的规定，除了危害国家安全犯罪、恐怖活动犯罪、特别重大贿赂犯罪需要向侦查机关申请会见外，其他的刑事案件自犯罪嫌疑人被侦查机关第一次讯问或者采取强制措施之日起，受委托的律师凭律师执业证书、律师事务所介绍信和委托书或者法律援助公函，有权会见犯罪嫌疑人、被告人并了解有关案件情况。而对于外国人来说，会见所需要的授权书以及相关亲属证明一般要求中国驻当地国使馆认证。认证需要的时间比较多，而对于急切了解犯罪嫌疑人近况的家属来说话花费数周时间来做公证是很难不可接受的。
According to Chinese criminal procedure law and relevant laws and regulations, except for suspects committing crime of endangering state security, crime of terrorist activities and crime of specially serious bribery which visiting of the suspect shall be approved by investigation organ, suspects of other crimes can be freely visited by retained lawyer from the first time the suspect was questioned or taken mandatory measures. documents such as lawyer’ license、introductory letter issued by law firm and POA or legal aid letter shall be provided when the lawyer visit a suspect .As for foreigners, POA needed for the visit shall be signed by the suspect’s relative and shall be attested by Chinese embassy which cost a lot of time. So it’s hard for relatives to wait because they eagerly to know the suspect’s recent situations and to show caring to the suspect which will comfort the suspect a lot.
那么，这时候怎么尽快的委托律师会见到犯罪嫌疑人呢？最高人民法院关于执行《中华人民共和国刑事诉讼法》的司法解释402条规定，外国籍被告人在押的，其监护人、近亲属或者其国籍国驻华使、领馆可以代为委托辩护人。其监护人、近亲属代为委托的，应当提供与被告人关系的有效证明。在实践中，该嫌疑人国籍国驻华使、领馆可以代为委托辩护人，该国驻中国使馆出具一份会见公函，在这种情况下，律师凭执业证，介绍信和公函就可以顺利见当事人了。律师这时候准备好授权书让当事人签署，在以后程序中就可以使用当事人亲自签署的授权书了。
Is there a way make the lawyer can visit a suspect soon? According to Chinese
judicial interpretation by Supreme Court on Chinese criminal procedure law article 402, the embassy from suspect’s nationality country can retain a lawyer instead of the suspect’s relatives. That is Embassy can retain a lawyer to visit the suspect by issuing a visit letter which shall not be attested. In such a situation lawyer can visit the suspect by providing lawyer’s license, letter from law firm and the visiting letter from embassy from the suspect’s nationality country. A lawyer shall prepare POA to be signed by the suspect for future use.