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(2) Witnesses shall always be asked for the origin of the knowledge they are presentingas their testimony.(3) Witnesses may be confronted if their testimonies clash in respect of important facts.Only two witnesses at a time may be confronted. Such confrontation shall be subject tothe application of the provisions of Article 91 paragraph 2 of this Code.(4) When questioned as witnesses, aggrieved parties shall be asked whether they intendto press for damages in the criminal proceedings.Article 104(1) Where it is necessary to establish whether a witness recognises a certain person orobject he had previously described, he shall be shown that person together with otherpersons unknown to him having personal characteristics similar to those he haddescribed, or the aforesaid object together with objects of the same or similar type, andshall then be asked to declare whether he can identify the person or recognise the objectwith certainty or a certain degree of probability, and, if the answer if positive, to point tothe person or object recognised.(2) In the pre-trial and preliminary criminal proceedings, identification of persons shall beperformed in a manner ensuring that the person being identified cannot see the witness,and neither can the witness see that person before the identification procedure iscommenced.(3) In the pre-trial proceedings identification of persons shall be conducted in thepresence of the public prosecutor.Article 105Where questioning of witnesses is being conducted via an interpreter or where thewitness if deaf or mute, his examination shall be performed in the manner prescribed byArticle 95 of this Code.Article 106(1) Witnesses shall be asked to take an oath before testifying.(2) Prior to the trial, witnesses may be asked to take oaths only where there exists adanger that ill health of other reasons could prevent them from attending the trial. Thereason for the taking of the oath at that time shall be entered in the record.(3) The oath reads as follows: "I hereby swear to tell the truth about everything I will beasked before the court and that I will not omit any of the facts known to me."(4) Oaths are taken by witnesses verbally, by reading out their texts, or by giving anaffirmative response after being read out the text of the oath by a judge or an officer ofthe court duly authorised by the judge. Mute witnesses who can read and write shall sign

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