Ejei: Defendants Must Not Be Detained Due to Delays in Providing Bail

The Head of the Judiciary, while unveiling the electronic guarantee plan, emphasized accelerating the acceptance of bail and surety and preventing the detention of defendants whose detention is unnecessary.

According to the report of Ambassador Arjan, this morning, during a ceremony attended by Hojjatul-Islamwal-Muslimeen Mohseni Azhei, the head of the Judiciary, the plans for the smart acceptance of collaterals and sureties, known as electronic guarantees, were unveiled. With this judicial achievement, the defendants who do not need to be arrested can quickly and in less than 10 minutes provide bail or introduce a guarantor, and thus, they can be prevented from being arrested even for an hour.

It is worth mentioning that more than three fourths of the monthly admissions to the country's prisons are made up of detained defendants. A significant number of the defendants would not have been sent to prison even for an hour if they could provide and introduce their bail and guarantor quickly; Now, this problem has been solved with the smart acceptance plan of pledges and sureties.

Hojjat-ul-Islamwal-Muslimeen Mohseni Azhei, head of the judiciary, visited one of Tehran's judicial complexes this morning in order to monitor the implementation of technological and artificial intelligence-based systems in judicial authorities and centers, in order to facilitate and speed up the judicial affairs of the people.

During this visit, the head of the judicial system unveiled the plans for the smart acceptance of collaterals and sureties, known as electronic guarantees.

During this visit, the head of the judiciary closely monitored the process of smart acceptance of bonds and sureties by attending several judicial branches and talked with the parties involved in the cases and their lawyers.

It is worth mentioning that the "Electronic Guarantee" plan or the smart acceptance of collaterals and sureties is one of the strategic developments in the field of electronic justice and modernization of the judicial structure. With the aim of transitioning from "physical and traditional bail" to "digital and dynamic bail", this plan includes several dimensions, including facilitating public affairs and promoting legal security.

During his visit today, the Head of the Judiciary emphasized several important points regarding the development of the "Electronic Guarantee" project, or smart acceptance of collaterals and sureties, while having a direct conversation with the parties involved in the cases and their lawyers, as well as the judicial officers and users.

In the course of this visit, the head of the judiciary, during his speech explaining the advantages of technological judicial projects and specifically the plan for smart acceptance of bonds and sureties, stated: In the traditional system, the process of securing bail, be it immovable or movable, or even introducing a guarantor, brought problems for the people and clients to the judiciary, and sometimes people's time was wasted for several days, and even the accused who did not need to be arrested, inevitably, due to the inability to secure them quickly The bail or introduction of the guarantor was taken to the detention center, sometimes for several days. However, due to the "electronic guarantee" plan or smart acceptance of collaterals and sureties, these problems and obstacles are solved.

The judge pointed out: In the traditional system, it sometimes takes several days to identify the property and value the collateral and arrest and impound it, in order to release the accused from temporary detention; But now, with the electronic guarantee plan, in less than half an hour, the security deposit is valued and accepted by the accused or his lawyer, thus preventing the arrest of the accused who does not need to be arrested.

The head of the judiciary clarified: We have always emphasized that no defendant should be arrested without reason. Even one night in jail and detention may cause irreparable damage to a person. In some cases, due to the defendant's inability to quickly provide bail and introduce a guarantor, he was inevitably sent to the detention center; However, with the creation and development of the electronic guarantee scheme and the intelligent acceptance of bonds and sureties, no accused who does not need to be arrested will go to jail even for an hour.

The Head of the Judiciary emphasized: the plan of intelligent acceptance of bonds and sureties is effective in reducing the criminal population; In this regard, it may be necessary to amend and complete the "instructions for organizing prisoners and reducing the criminal population of prisons" and to include this immediate achievement in this instruction.

Qazi al-Qadat noted: We strongly emphasize on the development of electronic guarantee plan and smart acceptance of bonds and sureties. This acceptance of electronic documents should also be fully available for prisoners who have the conditions to be sent on leave. Also, in the field of introduction of a sponsor, this smart acceptance should not be limited to a sponsor who is an administrative employee or has social security records; Rather, conditions must be quickly created so that a professional and a tradesman can also upload his business documents in the system for guarantee.

Hojjatul-Islamwal-Muslimin Mohseni Azhei, referring to the advantage of the mentioned plan in the topic of experts, also stated: Another advantage of the electronic guarantee plan and smart acceptance of collaterals and sureties is automatic valuation and connection to the property valuation database, and as a result, no need for a time-consuming expert process. We have emphasized many times that one of the reasons for the delay of judicial proceedings is the issue of time-consuming experts. We are determined to shorten the processes that oversee the proceedings and the advancement of people's judicial affairs. In this field, we will use as much technological tools and methods as possible, relying on artificial intelligence, in terms of its security and protection aspects.

The Head of the Judiciary stated: In the past, the mandatory presence of a person in relevant authorities and centers to inquire and register bail took a lot of time and money from the citizen; However, with the electronic guarantee, this process is carried out in the context of the national information network and with direct connection to the registration and banking systems, and in this way the frequent visits of the people are prevented and as a result, the respect of the people and clients is realized. To provide an environment where people don't have to suffer and travel a lot for bail and guarantee is a sign of honoring people and clients.

The head of the judiciary, also during this visit and supervision, emphasized the issue of providing public education to the people in order to take advantage of the smart acceptance of securities and sureties and electronic guarantees, and said: it is not enough that only the forces and judicial officers and professional users such as lawyers, experts, etc. be; Rather, the public should be informed about the existence of these technological achievements.

In this regard, during this visit, the head of the Judiciary Media Center gave explanations in line with the existing written programs for public information to the public for the use and utilization of judicial technological systems, and specifically the plans for smart acceptance of collaterals and sureties and electronic guarantees, and said that in addition to being included in the news and popular television series and educational clips, the introduction of judicial technological services is also pursued on popular platforms. we do

It is worth mentioning that during the visit of the head of the judiciary to several judicial branches in order to monitor the implementation of technological and artificial intelligence-based systems in the judicial authorities and centers, several lawyers who had come to follow up on their clients' cases had a direct and indirect conversation with the head of the judiciary, while appreciating the special attention of the judiciary to the development of electronic systems that facilitate the ease and speed of determining the task of judicial cases, they emphasized that with The intelligentization of the judiciary in the period of transformation and excellence, speeding up and facilitating the progress of cases, has become tangible.

One of the aforementioned lawyers, whose client lived in Arak city, said to the head of the judiciary: "I went to this judicial branch today to introduce the guarantor, and after presenting the guarantor's name and details to the branch office manager and sending the code, in less than 10 minutes, the property located in Arak city was identified and valued, and it was secured and deposited as collateral. This is definitely one of the most efficient achievements and services of the country's judicial system; If there was no such achievement and service, the process of identifying and valuing the mentioned property, considering that it is in the city, would take up to a week or even more due to the issue of judicial representation, and in this case, many problems would arise for my client.

Hojjatul-Islamwal-Muslimin Mohseni Azhei, after visiting several judicial branches in order to monitor the efficiency of the smart acceptance of collaterals and sureties, attended the unveiling ceremony of the smart acceptance of collaterals and sureties project, known as electronic guarantee, and emphasized during the ceremony: serving the people is an act of worship; The service we provide to the people must be accompanied by maintaining their dignity and respect; One aspect of intelligentizing judicial processes and services is preserving the dignity of the people; When people don't get into trouble and trouble to carry out their judicial affairs and are not forced to pay money and spend time and delays for no reason, it means that their dignity and honor are not distorted either.

The head of the Judiciary stated: Our sent people deserve to receive the best services. We should honor these people as much as we can; Honoring these people makes the friends of the Islamic Republic system happy and enraged and the enemies of this system angry. Today, our treacherous enemy is more afraid of our powerful missiles than of our sent nation; A nation that has steadfastly and honorably stood up to the enemy and foiled all his conspiracies; Therefore, we servants and brokers should not know day and night to serve these people.