Who are political prisoners and why it is difficult to define them – BBC News in Serbian
From the east to west, the most core for the most core democracies, almost there is no state where some people are not seated in slims with grids on windows due to political attitudes, beliefs and works.
The term « political prisoner », however, does not mean much and there is no clear, internationally recognized definition of this concept.
« The term (political prisoner) means any prisoner whose case contains a significant political element – whether it is the motivation of the prison act, the act or motivation of the authorities, » such a concept unofficially defines Amnesty International, Organization for Human Rights.
The six-sedic activists of the Movement of Free Citizens and Informal Student GROUP The paragraph for more than two months is in custody under the indebtedness of the constitutional order, while detention in the absence and intentions were detained for more than six.
« We know that it is political prisoners because they were arrested exclusively because they used political rights and freedom of gathering, » Milena Vasić, Lawyer from the Committee of Lawyers for Human Rights.
The Senior Court in Novi Sad is « Novi Sad Six » 13. May extended detention for another 30 days, in the process of Tonino Picula, the rapporteur of the European Parliament for the Western Balkans and Serbia also characterized Serbia as politically.
« The fact that the country candidate may have political prisoners is certainly not good for the country that expresses European ambitions », he said Croatian politician and EuroParliamentary for Deut. Vele.
Picula also called for the release of the detained professor of Sociology Marija Vasić, which strikes hunger and thirst from extension of detention 13. May
« I invite to the urgent liberation of her and other political prisoners in Serbia! There is no reason to hold in inhumane conditions, » He has published Picula on Twitter.
More politically, than a legal notion
The Chilopadia of the Britain’s notion of a political prisoner defines widely as someone who is closed because its procedures or beliefs are contrary to the procedures or beliefs of its government.
« This is the most common meaning of terms that can be difficult to define. In practice, political prisoners cannot often be different from other types of prisoners », writes On the Encyclopedia site.
The legal definition makes it difficult for someone to attribute to someone’s status of a political prisoner only after the arrest, while pre-arrangements can be considered dissents, revolutionaries, social reformers or radical thinkers.
One of the differences between political prisoners and ordinary criminals is that they are first involved in a group fight against the ruling elites, while the activities of others usually include an element of meeting their own interests, add.
« Universal definition I believe that there is no and that it depends on the situation when it is estimated whether a criminal offense is political.
« The score is a lump sum and does not have some legal value, except for political and representing in society, » Milena Vasić explains.
Amnesty International This term uses in a broader sense to define the prisoners for which it requires just and quick trial.
But it does not conduct a campaign for their release, as with a narrower category – a prisoner of conscience, for which they require immediate and unconditional release.
Specific criteria for definition of concept
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe has become the first major intergovernmental organization that is approved specific criteria To define the term « political prisoner », October 2012.
Independent experts elaborated in 2001. in assessing the alleged political closures in Armenia and Azerbaijan on the occasion of the two countries to this international organization for supporting human rights, democracy and the rule of law on the old continent.
According to this definition, a political prisoner is considered a « person deprived of personal freedom » in the following cases:
- If custody is determined by the basic guarantees set out in the European Convention on Human Rights, especially freedom of thought, conscience and religions, freedom of expression and information, freedom of gathering and association
- If detention is determined exclusively for political reasons without a relationship with any criminal
- If, from political motives, the length of detention or its conditions is obviously disproportionate to which the person is declared guilty or is suspected
- If, from political motifs, the person detained in a discriminatory manner compared to other persons
- If the detention is the result of a procedure that was obviously unjust and it seems related to the political motifs of government
In this case, in this case, political prisoners are not considered persons deprived of liberty due to terrorist crimes, if they were prosecuted and convicted of such acts in accordance with national legislation and the European Convention on Human Rights.
International organizations and intergovernmental bodies like the Red Cross, United Nations and European Unions most often accept Recommendations for local human rights groups operating in a country of interest on who represents a political prisoner.
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