LEGAL MECHANISMSFOR THE PROTECTION OF FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS OF THE SUSPECT OR THE ACCUSED DURING THE INVESTIGATION

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Author/s: Dragana Vujić,

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UDK: 343.121; 341.48/.49
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Abstract: The human rights can be said that these are the standards without which people can not live in dignity as human beings. Human rights are the foundation of freedom, justice and peace. Their respect for the individual and to the community to fully develop. Human rights are only those individual rights that are owed to the state and not her will, but they are human being has the virtue of being a human being, or acquire them by birth and not by the will and grace of the state. These are the basic political and socio-economic demands of citizens in relation to state power and society in general, which is a prerequisite for the realization of biological, political, and cultural livelihood of individuals, or in conditions of life worthy of man and his dignity. Human rights and the values that are contained in them, have a very important social and political function in determining the legitimacy of the government, because only the government that respects human rights is legitimate and can function normally. This paper tries to point out what legal mechanisms available to the suspect or the accused in a criminal proceeding, specifically in the investigation and to ensure protection of his fundamental human rights and freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution of the Republic not only Serbian(or BH), but also other international legal acts signed and ratified by our country.

Keywords: human rights and freedoms, protection of human rights and freedoms, prosecution, investigation, suspects, defendants, legal mechanisms