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2) persons who had served a sentence of deprivation of liberty, in connectionwith reopening of criminal proceedings, requests for the protection of legalityor requests to review the legality of a final judgement, persons who had beenpronounced a sentence of deprivation of liberty in a duration shorter than thatactually served, or persons pronounced a criminal sanction not consisting of adeprivation of liberty, or persons who were pronounced guilty but had theirpenalties remitted;3) persons who were owing to an error or the unlawful work of the authoritiesunjustifiably deprived of liberty or kept longer in detention or in an institutionfor serving a sentence or a measure;4) Persons who had spent longer in detention than the duration of thesentence which they were convicted to serve.(2) Persons who were under Article 227 of this Code deprived of liberty without legalgrounds are entitled to indemnification if they had not been remanded in detention, or ifthe time of deprivation of liberty was not included in the sanction pronounced for acriminal offence or a minor offence.(3) Persons who by their impermissible actions led to deprivation of liberty are notentitled to any compensation. In the cases referred to in item 1) of paragraph 1 of thisArticle, the right to indemnification is also excluded where there existed thecircumstances referred to in Article 556 paragraph 1 items 1) and 2) or if theproceedings were discontinued on the basis of Article 217 of this Code.(4) The provisions of this chapter shall be applied accordingly in proceedings forindemnification referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 of this Article.Article 561(1) If a case related to wrongful conviction or unlawful deprivation of liberty of a person ispresented in the information media thereby damaging the reputation of that person, thecourt shall, upon his request, publish in newspapers or other media an announcementabout a decision declaring that the previous conviction was wrongful or that thedeprivation of liberty was unlawful. If the case was not presented in the media, such anannouncement shall, upon this person’s request, be delivered to a public authority, localgovernment authority, enterprise, other legal person or natural person where the personis employed, and if necessary for his rehabilitation – to a social or other organisation.After the death of the convicted person, his spouse, children, parents and siblings areentitled to submit such a request.(2) The request referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article may be submitted even if aclaim for indemnification has not been submitted.(3) Irrespective of the requirements prescribed in Article 556 of this Code, the requestreferred to in paragraph 1 of this Article may also be submitted if the legal qualification ofthe offence had been altered in connection with an extraordinary legal remedy, if thelegal qualification in the earlier judgement had seriously damaged the reputation of theconvicted person.