DEMOCRATIC LAW
NEW PRINCIPLES IN ITALY’S ’ , CONSTITUTION ROME, Sept. 18. For the first time in Italy’s history the principle that the accused is innocent until proved guilty is being introduced in the new constitution, as the result of a sub-commission of the Constituent Assembly accepting the general principle that personal liberty is inviolable. Another proposal prohibits physical and moral violence against arrested persons and limits the periods in which a person can be detained without being charged to 84 hours. ' All parties support the changes which will probably become law without discussion, says the Associated Press correspondent, who adds that the changes are the most significant gestures from the new. Italy towards the democratic principles of justice.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 21 September 1946, Page 6
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