The Duty of Loyalty of Ethnic and National Minorities by the Interference of Criminal and Criminal Procedural Law in Romania Cover Image

Obligaţia de loialitate a minorităţilor etnice şi naţionale la interferenţa dreptului penal şi procesual penal din România
The Duty of Loyalty of Ethnic and National Minorities by the Interference of Criminal and Criminal Procedural Law in Romania

Author(s): Gyula Fábián
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Sociology, Ethnic Minorities Studies
Published by: Scientia Kiadó
Keywords: ethnic minority; national minority; national security; threat to national security; separatism; territorial autonomy; treason; attempt; terro­rist act; preventive restraint; special methods of surveil

Summary/Abstract: The majority state expects ethnic and national minorities to beha­ve loyally, and from the ‘antagonistic’ relationship between the striving for minority survival and the striving of the majority to create ethnic exclusivity at the national level some aspects of the concept of national security were born. By invoking national security as an exceptional situation, which can justify the disproportionate restriction of fundamental rights, the state even uses criminal law or criminal procedural law instruments to preventively restrict minority rights without respecting the presumption of innocence. The present study attempts to present some of those situations where ri­gorous instruments of criminal law and criminal procedure are ‘diluted or sacrificed’ in order to prevent acts of ‘lawlessness’.

  • Issue Year: 13/2024
  • Issue No: Special
  • Page Range: 61-72
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Romanian
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