ПРЕТПОСТАВКА НЕВИНОСТИ И СЛОБОДА ШТАМПЕ
PRESUMPTION OF INNOCENCE AND FREEDOM OF MEDIA

Summary/Abstract: The presumption of innocence is a right of the accused to be presumed as innocent until and unless his guilt has been proved by final verdict of a court. This right of the accused obliges others to respect this presumption and not to violate, by their public statements, other rules of procedure, rights of the defendant and injured party, judicial independence and impartiality. Freedom of media and the right of citizens to be informed, are also proclaimed by numerous international documents, as well as by the Serbian Constitution. The purpose of this article is to examine how to harmonize these conflicting requests for observation of presumption of innocence from one, and freedom of media from the other side. The Article deals with regulation of this conflict in Serbian legal system, regulations in other European countries, as well as the practice of the European court of Human Rights related to this topic.

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