Presumed innocent but detained for months pretrial in Germany and EU
08 June 2022 |
3:39 pm
One in five people jailed in the European Union hasn't been convicted of a crime — including 12,000 in Germany alone. Studies suggest that pretrial detention is unnecessary in most cases.
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