MORAL AND MATERIAL REHABILITATION OF PERSONS GROUNDLESSLY DEPRIVED OF LIBERTY

Zdravko Djukanović

doi:10.51738/kpolisa.2026.1r.zdj

Authors

Zdravko Djukanović Attorney-at-law, Belgrade, Serbia https://orcid.org/0009-0006-5395-079X

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.51738/kpolisa.2026.1r.zdj

Keywords:

groundless deprivation of liberty, moral and material rehabilitation, compensation for damage, responsibility of the state

Abstract

The Right to Freedom is one of the basic human rights. This right was proclaimed by the Universal Declaration of human Rights, the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, and the right to freedom in domestic law was proclaimed by the Constitution of the Republic of Serbia. Given that the right to freedom is protected by basic international and domestic legal acts, states prescribe sanctions for persons who limit the individual's right to liberty. however, in cases where the state has limited the right to freedom, and especia ly when it has groundlessly deprived a natural person of liberty, the question arises as to whether it can be held accountable and what its obligations are to the natural person, whom its authorities, courts and police have groundlessly deprived of liberty. This paper will deal with the rights of a natural person who has been groundlessly deprived of liberty, to moral and material rehabilitation. This paper will focus on the determination of the legal nature of the institute of material and moral rehabilitation of persons groundlessly deprived of liberty.

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