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Automatically pretrial detention undermines democracy and favours dictatorship

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Vol. 17 No. 2 (2021): Anuario de Derechos Humanos
https://doi.org/10.5354/0718-2279.2021.59242
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Abstract

This work exposes and analyzes automatically pretrial detention, in the light of domestic legal system and international jurisprudence on human rights. It shows how it is manipulated to restrict fundamental rights, perpetuate the exercise of power, prevent the holding of periodic, free and fair elections based on suffrage as an expression of the sovereignty of the people, to prevent the existence and organization of political opponents, and also to strip the judiciary not only of its independence, but of all its jurisdiction. The above through flagrant violations of domestic legal system, international conventions and recommendations of international mechanisms from universal and regional systems. This research was carried out in Mexico, however, the identified problems may extend to any country in Latin America, particularly Chile, Argentina, Uruguay and Venezuela, inasmuch as the automatically pretrial detention, also called arbitrary, is a frontal attack against democracy, that favors the establishment, return and/or strengthening of the dictatorship.

Keywords:

Liberty , presumption of innocence , judicial guarantees , human rights , Inter-American Court of Human Rights

Author Biography

Antonio Salcedo Flores, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, México

Antonio Salcedo Flores es licenciado en Derecho por la Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, México. Especialista, maestro y doctor en Derecho por la Universidad Panamericana, México. Ex juez familiar del Tribunal Superior de Justicia del Distrito Federal. Profesor Investigador de la Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana desde 1981, donde se desempeña como docente de Derecho Procesal y miembro del Núcleo Básico del Área de Investigación Derechos Humanos y Alternatividad Jurídico Social; y fue jefe del Departamento de Derecho, así como fundador y coordinador del Bufete Jurídico.

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Salcedo Flores, A. (2021). Automatically pretrial detention undermines democracy and favours dictatorship. Anuario De Derechos Humanos, 17(2), 473–492. https://doi.org/10.5354/0718-2279.2021.59242
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