Framing the right to information during the preliminary investigation stage: a comparative study in the Algerian and French legislation

Abstract EN

This subject falls within the framework of studying the relationship between freedom of expression and the proper functioning of the judiciary facility on the one hand, and the right of citizens to obtain information related to research and investigation of crimeson the other hand, pursuing perpetrators and bring them to trial.

This study aims to analyze what is the right to information, during the investigation stage.

Through several basic issues related to the content, nature, and controlsof this right, it clearly constitutes a necessary mechanism for balancing freedom of expression and the proper functioning of the judiciary on the one hand, and the need to preserve the rights of the parties to the litigationon the other hand.

Article 11 of the Criminal Procedures Law states This rightHowever, there is a lack of its content compared with French law, this requires the legislator to intervene in order to set controlsfor what can be allowed to be published, in order to avoid the media corruption, while granting the victim the right to stop the assault according to the urgent action filing.

Before the civil judiciary, this is an example of the French legislator.