The
arrested person applied for the Human Rights Defender’s support in removing the
video on the crime attributed to him that had been published by the RA
Police.
Within
the discussion of the complaint, it was revealed that the Police had published a
video entitled “Apartment theft case has been solved: the thief was the
neighbor”. The examination showed that certain statements in the text allow to
identify the person through the presented personal data, and, moreover, may
form biased views on the guilt of the person as an established fact. Besides,
the video does not contain an information on the presumption of innocence and relevant
notification.
According
to the person who had addressed the complaint to the Defender, the video
published in 2017 formed a public opinion on his guilt as of an established fact
while it had not been proven in the prescribed manner, by a court decision
entered into legal force.
The
video was removed from the Internet as a result of the cooperation with the RA
Police.
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