Abstract:
Newspapers are among the most important modern means of expressing opinions, and we could say that the freedom newspapers have in publishing the content they want from thoughts and opinions is considered as a scale to measure people’s freedom; for the freedom of expression and opinion is from the most supreme and sacred liberties provided by conventions, norms and constitutions nowadays. Press publishing has a massive importance for the role it plays in upholding political freedoms provided by different constitutions and laws, without affecting other people's rights and political liberties such as the right to honour, privacy, not harming public order or State Public İnterest. Openness Corner is what characterizes press publishing crimes which makes it an intentional crime therefore it would be subject to general rule of penal responsibility, in terms of criminalizing even though the legislator sometimes doesn't follow this rule especially in what concerns establishing responsibility on this kind of offence, where the Algerian legislator worked with presumptive responsibility that considers both the editor and writer principal offenders. Characteristics of press offences show more in the Follow-up and penal system; the follow-up system in what concerns press offences poses various issues in both practical and theoretical part because it solely keeps some measures either in establishing jurisdiction in its opinion or the limitation on prosecution in it while press offences have their own penal system, The Algerian legislator gave this kind of offences attention, and the proof to that is the removal of all the penalties involving deprivation of liberty in all press misdemeanours, which is considered as a notable legislative advance in consecrating freedom of the press in expression and publishing.
