The prosecution bodies do not manage criminal cases or proceedings instituted against representatives of the press, which would enable to take special investigation measures. No complaint or application has been received by now from journalists or representatives of civil society over abuses committed against them, the Prosecutor General’s Office (PGO) has said, being quoted by IPN.
The details were provided following the dissemination of “defamatory information and accusations concerning the pursuit of journalists and representatives of civil society made either from the Parliament’s rostrum or from TV studios”.
The PGO notes that the number of signals and notifications that involve the redistribution of institutional resources and the distracting of attention from important objectives has increased. In this connection, it calls on the subjects of notifications to avoid engaging the prosecution service “in private disputes of any kind between different groups of interests and to collect information about the institution’s duties before besieging it with requests that are not within its remit”.
According to the PGO, it is ready and obliged to examine, in accordance with the law, all the applications submitted by persons who consider that their rights were violated or who possess information about the commission of abuses.
The Prosecutor General’s Office says the political statements and beliefs, opinions and viewpoints are protected by law under the auspices of the constitutional principle of the freedom of expression. But the freedom of expression cannot infringe on the dignity, honor and private life of the person or on the right to one’s own image.
