Presunción de culpabilidad: el uso excesivo de la prisión preventiva en todo el mundo

Martin Schoenteich habla sobre la primera encuesta mundial centrada en los daños causados por el uso excesivo de la prisión preventiva. Más información, en inglés, está disponible abajo.

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The arbitrary and excessive use of pretrial detention is a massive and widely ignored pattern of human rights abuse that affects—by a conservative estimate—15 million people a year. The right to be presumed innocent until proven guilty is universal, but at this moment some 3.3 million people are behind bars waiting for a trial that may be months or even years away. No right is so broadly accepted in theory but so commonly violated in practice. The global overuse of pretrial detention is among the most overlooked human rights crises of our time.

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