The issues of ensuring the rights of the victim and the accused (suspect) in pre-trial criminal proceedings

This article is devoted to theoretical and practical issues of the relationship between the rights of the victim and the accused (suspect) during the preliminary investigation. The work substantiates the impossibility of granting victims and accused the same procedural rights, since they have opposite goals in the criminal process. The rights of the accused will always be given more attention due to his vulnerable position in a criminal case. The author believes that both the victim and the accused have enough rights to protect their interests today. The author believes that both the victim and the accused currently have sufficient rights to protect their interests. It is necessary to increase the guarantees for the implementation of these rights by developing additional effective mechanisms to ensure the rights of these participants in criminal proceedings during the preliminary investigation. This article aims to focus attention not on the number of individual rights in criminal proceedings, but on ensuring the implementation of existing rights. The lack of existing guarantees is one of the main problems of the legal status of a participant in criminal proceedings. The lack of existing guarantees is one of the main problems of the legal status of a participant in criminal proceedings. The provisions of the article are also aimed at eliminating in the professional thinking of the investigator (inquiry officer) incorrect ideas about the rights and freedoms of man and citizen, at introducing liability of these officials for violations of personal rights committed in the pre-trial stages of criminal proceedings, which may subsequently affect the rendering of a legal and fair sentence.