Quelle est l’autorité compétente pour décider de la mise en liberté?

Ouganda

A magistrate’s court – before which a person arrested appears or is brought – is competent to release on bail that person.

A chief magistrate – within the area of jurisdiction – is competent to release on bail a person to whom bail has been refused by a lower court.

The High Court is competent to release on bail a person to whom bail has been refused by the magistrate’s court.

The prosecutor is competent to release a person – with the consent of the court or on the instructions of the Director of Public Prosecutions – as a result to withdraw from the prosecution of that person.

The Uganda Human Rights Commission is competent to release a person when it concludes there has been an infringement of a human right of that person.

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