Criminal Procedure Code of the Kyrgyz Republic - Legislationline

(2) Documents may contain information both in writing and viva voce. Documents may be
photos and movies, sound and video records received, requested or supplied in compliance
with this Code and considered evidence for the case.
(3) Documents shall be attached to the case dossier during the whole time of storage. If required
for accounting, reports or other legal purposes, documents seized and attached to the dossier
of the case may be returned to their owners or given for temporal use provided that it will not
cause any harm to the criminal case, or their copies shall be made.
(4) Documents shall be considered exhibits if they have the attributes specified in Article 85 of
this Code.
Article 90. Records of Investigation and Court Proceedings
Documents of investigation actions made as provided herein, fixing circumstances apprehended
by the person in charge of the criminal case, and discovered during search, inspection,
examination, seizure, detention, identification, disinterment of corpse, checking testimony at the
site, experiment, telephone and other conversations, and other proceedings on the criminal case
as well as transcripts of the court proceedings, showing the progress of court actions and their
results, shall be considered records for the criminal case.
Article 91. Proof
CHAPTER 10. COLLECTING, TESTING, EVALUATING EVIDENCE
(1) Proof consists of collection, testing evaluation on the evidence in order to establish facts of
significance for legal, well-grounded and just case resolution.
(2) Collection of the evidence shall be performed during the investigation and court proceedings
by way of questioning, confrontation, identification, seizure, search and inspection,
experiments, audits, expertise, requesting documents and other investigational and court
proceedings stipulated by the law.
(3) Investigator, court, shall be entitled within their proceedings on the cases to summon any
person for questioning or for the expert’s opinion as stipulated by this Code; to inspect,
search and conduct other investigational proceedings; require from organizations,
associations, officials, persons, and investigation agencies documents and things significant
for the case; require audit and check from appropriate bodies and officials.
(4) The defense attorney shall be entitled to introduce evidences and to collect information
required for legal assistance, as well as to demanding information, references and other
documents from different organizations and their associations, which, in their turn, shall be
obliged to provide such documents or their copies; with the consent of the client to inquire
experts’ conclusions in order to clarify questions occurred while providing legal assistance
when such questions require special skills; utilize services of private detectives or detective
agencies in order to obtain information related to the case pursuant to the Law on Advocacy
and Advocate Activity.
(5) The suspect, accused, defendant, defense attorney, prosecutor, victim, civil plaintiff, civil
defendant and their representatives, any citizen, organization and their associations shall be