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53A - Everyone has the right to retain and instruct legal counsel at any instance where legal assistance is required.
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ICCPR-18 The State party should provide legal guarantees to suspects detained by the Police, or National Defence Forces, whereby that they are brought before a judge who should decide on the lawfulness of their detention and/or its extension, within 48 hours. In adopting its Legal Aid Act, the State party should also ensure that free legal assistance is provided in any cases where the interest of justice so requires. International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
CAT-16 16.The State party should take measures to increase the resources and strengthen the capacity of the Human Rights Commission of the Maldives, in accordance with the Principles relating to the Status of National Institutions for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights (the Paris Principles) and the Guidelines of the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions. Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment 
CAT-38(a) 38.(a) Provide additional financial resources to the National Human Rights Commission of the Maldives in order to enable it to carry out more visits and better fulfil its functions as National Preventive Mechanism, including the function of conducting unannounced visits to all places of deprivation of liberty and to meet in private with persons confined there; and make public the Commission’s reports to the authorities; Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment 
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