During the Third Reich, the world experienced a totalitarian political regime that sentenced people to death without evidence.<\/p>\n
Convictions without evidence under Nazism and Communism<\/big><\/p>\n During Adolf Hitler's dictatorship, it was enough for a person to accuse an enemy of the regime, without any evidence<\/strong>, for that person to face the most brutal and inhuman punishments. This was nothing new in human history. The Soviet communist dictatorship had already implemented a totalitarian penal system very similar to the Nazi<\/strong> one, in which anyone could be convicted of a crime without evidence.<\/p>\n The presumption of innocence in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights<\/big><\/p>\n Following the defeat of the National Socialist dictatorship<\/strong>, the United Nations, at a General Assembly held in Paris, adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights<\/a> on 10 December 1948, based on the idea that \"recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family\"<\/em> is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world.<\/p>\n Article 11 of that Declaration addresses the right to the presumption of innocence<\/strong>, that is, that no person shall be convicted without evidence:<\/p>\n Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal<\/strong>, in the determination of his rights and obligations and of any criminal charge against him.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n In 1978, the Spanish people overwhelmingly approved the Spanish Constitution<\/a> in force today, which protects the right to the presumption of innocence in its Article 24.2<\/strong>, within a section dedicated to fundamental rights and public freedoms.<\/p>\n A court acquits a footballer due to lack of evidence.<\/big><\/p>\n On Friday, a footballer was acquitted by the High Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC)<\/a> of the crime of sexual assault of a young woman in a nightclub in Barcelona on December 31, 2022. The ruling states that \"from the evidence presented, it cannot be concluded that the standards required by the presumption of innocence have been exceeded<\/strong> in accordance with Directive (EU) 2016\/343 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 1994. Europe of March 9, 2016.\"<\/em><\/p>\n A socialist minister tramples on the right to the presumption of innocence<\/big><\/p>\n Yesterday, at a rally of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), a member of Pedro S\u00e1nchez's government, the socialist minister Mar\u00eda Jes\u00fas Montero criticized the sentence<\/a> with these words collected by the Europa Press agency in this video:<\/p>\n Mar\u00eda Jes\u00fas Montero ve "una verg\u00fcenza" la sentencia que absuelve a Dani Alves y que "todav\u00eda se cuestione el testimonio de una v\u00edctima y se diga que la presunci\u00f3n de inocencia est\u00e1 por delante del testimonio de mujeres j\u00f3venes": "Estamos contigo" https:\/\/t.co\/MmtQaBOTdy<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/p6h9vB4OOJ<\/a><\/p>\n — Europa Press (@europapress) March 29, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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