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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9190

12 May 2006
Contents Publication in full By article 28 / 41
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/jha/criminal justice
Commission launches green paper on presumption of innocence

Brussels, 11/05/2006 (Agence Europe) - On 28 April the Commission launched a Green Paper on the presumption of innocence, in view of clarifying what it means, how it is interpreted in Member States and to explain what rights stem from it. Based on the European Convention for safeguarding human rights and fundamental freedoms and the European court of Human Rights' jurisprudence, the Commission has listed a number of constitutive rights pertaining to the presumption of innocence, such as the...

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