Suspects can sue media houses for showing their faces, names- Law Lecturer
According to her, such an act amounts to the suspects being exposed to public ridicule thus an infringement on their rights.
A lecturer at the KNUST Faculty of Law, Maame Efua Addadzi-Koom has warned media houses against their display or publication of pictures of suspects.
According to her, such an act amounts to the suspects being exposed to public ridicule thus an infringement on their rights.
Speaking on the Law on JoyNews on December 13, 2021, and monitored by DL News, she advised suspects to take up such media houses in court while their trial is going on to clear their names of the public ridicule done to them by the media houses.
“You can do that concurrently. So while your trial is going on, because it is a procedure or it’s your right that has been infringed upon and it doesn’t have to wait for a conviction or anything otherwise. So you can send your issue to the court while that is going on,” she noted.
Additionally, the Legal practitioner preferred going to court as a better forum to the Police Station relative to the suspects clearing their names because it will give them equal public attention as was used by the media houses.
“I will go to the court and not to the Police is that going to the court will attract the same media attention, that being the platform on which my rights was abused, the kind of attention it has attracted, I’ll get the same attention if I go to the courtroom,” she indicated.
