Failure to keep accurate records would be a criminal offence.
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Abuse of the system would later be made a criminal offence.
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Doping was made a criminal offence in Kenya in June 2016.
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Offering investment services without regulatory permission is a criminal offence in Britain.
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If such co-ordination were proved, it would be a criminal offence.
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To violate this anonymity by naming them online is a criminal offence.
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Burning forests is already a criminal offence under Indonesia's 1999 forestry law.
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Germany said any foreign espionage on its soil would be a criminal offence.
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That saying something that annoys others could be construed as a criminal offence?
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Now, it is making it a criminal offence to possess those tender bills.
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Cobrapost alleged that this amounts to a criminal offence under the Indian penal code.
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The bill does not treat domestic violence, including marital rape, as a criminal offence.
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The first is that defamation should not be a criminal offence, only a civil one.
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Governments could start by making it a criminal offence to enable tax evasion by others.
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Misconduct in public office is a criminal offence with a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.
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While safe for human consumption, the suspected fraud potentially constitutes a criminal offence in France.
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But, what if the law doesn't officially recognise the assault in question as a criminal offence?
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And, in the Republic of Ireland abortion is a criminal offence except in very limited circumstances.
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Parliaments have passed laws making it a criminal offence for their countries' citizens to fight abroad.
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Blasphemy is a criminal offence in Muslim-majority Pakistan that can result in the death penalty.
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In New York, for instance, charging a rate of more than 25% is a criminal offence.
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Blasphemy is a criminal offence in the strictly Islamic country and can carry the death penalty.
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Homosexuality was a criminal offence in Russia until 1993 and classed as a mental illness until 1999.
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"Only 15 days suspension for what is a criminal offence is not acceptable," he wrote on Twitter.
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Since Cardinal Law's resignation, several states have made it a criminal offence not to report child abuse.
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Sceptics note that government data are unreliable and that questioning them could soon be a criminal offence.
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Between 1974 and 2008 it was a criminal offence to enter or stay in Mexico without authorisation.
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And while unauthorised immigration is not a criminal offence in most countries, facilitating it for gain is.
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Stalking is illegal in India, but it was not specifically designated as a criminal offence until 2013.
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This is a legal oath, and it would be a criminal offence to make a false declaration deliberately.
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BAKU (Reuters) - Azerbaijan's parliament on Wednesday made online defamation of the president a criminal offence punishable by imprisonment.
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Homosexuality was deemed a criminal offence in Russia until 1993 and classed as a mental illness until 1999.
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Homosexuality was deemed a criminal offence in Russia until 19983 and classed as a mental illness until 1999.
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Detective Inspector Stephen McCulloch said the protester breached a no-fly zone over Turnberry hotel, committing a criminal offence.
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In 2019, upskirting became a criminal offence in England and Wales punishable by up to two years in prison.
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It would attempt to bar the trading of Swiss stocks on EU exchanges by making it a criminal offence.
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The signs reminding you that entering the field of play is a criminal offence only make the urge greater.
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This will mean that being a member of, or inviting support for, this organisation will be a criminal offence.
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The RCMP appealed for public assistance in determining how the fire started and whether a criminal offence was involved.
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But then they proceed to warn him that accessing user data in this manner would be a criminal offence.
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Friction with central governments—Sierra Leone's government, for example, made washing corpses a criminal offence—was the predictable result.
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They should be kept in sight by their operators at all times; not doing do so is a criminal offence.
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The government is now fast-tracking a review of its laws, which could see hate speech made a criminal offence.
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Saltwater crocodiles are a protected species in the Northern Territory and taking or interfering with the animals is a criminal offence.
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A bill is pending in the legislature that would make defamation a criminal offence (Mr Nasheed's government decriminalised it in 2009).
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Insider dealing is a criminal offence in the UK and is punishable by a fine and up to seven years in jail.
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Homosexuality in Finland was a criminal offence until 1971, so after the war Laaksonen lived out many of his fantasies on paper.
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Misuse of police data should be a criminal offence for which people are punished, not a "mistake" absolved by a collective apology.
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A recent survey found that only 36% of people want to keep abortion as a criminal offence, down from 53% in 2010.
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She then persuaded the Dutch parliament to make holding women in such "marital captivity" a criminal offence, in theory punishable by jail.
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Three of the activists were released on Wednesday, while the rest were charged with a criminal offence of endangering a strategic utility.
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There's a provision in the wiretapping law that says it's actually a criminal offence for police to reveal the existence of a wiretap.
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The failure to declare company ownership is a criminal offence that can result in a fine or up to two years in prison.
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"Failure to do so is a criminal offence, punishable in the courts by an unlimited fine," reads a statement on the ICO website.
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It was reinstated as a criminal offence in India in 2013, punishable up to 10 years in prison, after four years of decriminalization.
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But when defamation is a criminal offence, governments can go beyond fining critics who have caused demonstrable harm, and imprison them simply for speaking.
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He left a Bible in a local club hoping a North Korean would find it, which is considered a criminal offence in North Korea.
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The commission, which supervises the presidential campaign, said in a statement that the publication or republication of the information could be a criminal offence.
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Thanks to the efforts of Shirin Musa, a campaigner, keeping a woman in such "marital captivity" is notionally a criminal offence under Dutch law.
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Insulting the president on social media was made a criminal offence under a cyber crimes law passed in 2015 before Magufuli came into office.
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Our laws made private and consensual sex between same-sex partners a criminal offence, leading to the unjust arrest, conviction, and imprisonment of Canadians.
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In Singapore, it is a criminal offence under the Public Order Act to organize or participate in a public assembly without a police permit.
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He is in formal legal terms an illegal entrant and as such commits a criminal offence under section 24 of the Immigration Act 1971.
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In 2014, members voted against scrapping a law making irregular immigration a criminal offence, though the party's founder had wanted to revoke the legislation.
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"I want to make it absolutely clear that it is a criminal offence to attempt to take a photograph ... in any court," she added.
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The video comes in the midst of an ongoing legal debate on marital rape, which is not considered to be a criminal offence in India.
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Even though female genital mutilation has been a criminal offence in Britain since 1985, the authorities have yet to bring a successful prosecution for FGM.
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The anti-terrorist law would make it a criminal offence within Trinidad to join or finance a terrorist organisation or commit a terrorist act overseas.
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Plenty of men have sex with men without calling themselves gay, especially in places where the sex act is a criminal offence or culturally unacceptable.
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The rules for senior managers will introduce, for the first time, a criminal offence of "reckless misconduct" for managers whose actions lead to bank failure.
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Domestic violence is not deemed a criminal offence, which means authorities can't start an investigation, or arrest the perpetrator until the victim files a claim.
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Drugs like marijuana are illegal yet consumed widely in Vietnam, but transporting 100 grammes or more of cocaine is a criminal offence, punishable by death.
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The country also has strict lèse-majesté laws, which makes it a criminal offence to insult, defame, or threaten any member of the royal family.
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AMP has denied allegations it had submitted a doctored report to a regulator and committed a criminal offence, saying the inquiry had overstated its involvement.
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Gay sex is considered taboo by many in socially conservative India, and was reinstated as a criminal offence in 2013 after four years of decriminalisation.
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Purchasing abortion pills online is a criminal offence everywhere in the United Kingdom and in the Republic of Ireland; one that can carry a life sentence.
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A new fine can be meted out to firms that fail to hand over documents requested by the commission; non-compliance is now a criminal offence.
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"We will deal robustly with incidents of harassment and abuse against anyone where that harassment or abuse constitutes a criminal offence," he said in a statement.
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While universities will not be able to determine if a criminal offence has taken place, they can judge if the student has violated their disciplinary code.
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A severe breach of fiduciary trust for potential misuse of funds is a criminal offence and can carry a penalty of up to 10 years in jail.
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Last year, China passed a law making it potentially a criminal offence to defame or deny the deeds and spirit of the country's historic heroes and martyrs.
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Barclays said the dismissal of the charges against itself should not be taken to have any bearing on whether other people may have committed a criminal offence.
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Ryan Whelan, a lawyer who partnered with campaigner Gina Martin to make upskirting a criminal offence in Britain last year, said upskirting was an "utterly grotesque violation".
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"Giving permission to shoot a strongly protected animal without a clear potential threat is a criminal offence," WWF board member Chris Heinrich told the Local in a statement.
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An alternative form of protection called mandatory reporting – which makes it a criminal offence not to report neglect or suspicions of neglect – is used in many other countries.
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Alam's lawyer, Shahdeen Malik, said his comments during the protests did not constitute a criminal offence, and that Hasina's remarks regarding Alam's uncle suggested a "feudal" justice system.
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"We have taken the decision to introduce this special law to make doping, and those attempting to take performance-enhancing drugs, a criminal offence," Mutko told reporters on Tuesday.
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And, on the Isle of Man — also part of the UK — abortions can only be carried out in the event of a criminal offence or on mental health grounds.
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They were arguing that a 2150-year-old statute that holds defamation to be a criminal offence is both unconstitutional and a danger to free speech (which it is).
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"It's absurd that a procedure which is so necessary for women's lives, and so accepted by British society, should remain a criminal offence," Bpas CEO Ann Furedi told Broadly.
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Romania's Constitutional Court rejected on Thursday a request by the country's ombudsman to strike down a law that bars people convicted of a criminal offence from joining the government.
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The ABC raid was authorised by a court and based on evidence that provided "sufficient suspicion that a criminal offence has been committed", the AFP said in a statement.
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And it contends that Maryam Sharif, his daughter and presumed political heir, forged documents submitted to the Supreme Court—a criminal offence which could see her disqualified from holding office.
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Until recently in Texas it was a criminal offence to cause a rumpus on a school bus; in South Carolina, it still is one to cause a disturbance in school.
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This week the government ordered a review of whether non-payment of the licence fee (currently set at an annual £154.50, or $203) should cease to be a criminal offence.
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Aside from clubs dropping like flies, one of the president's biggest headaches last season was his on-going battle with the Latvian state to make match-fixing a criminal offence.
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The SPS uses the devices to block GSM, 2G, and 3G signals, as it is a criminal offence for prisoners to possess a mobile phone or other portable communications device.
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WARSAW (Reuters) - A Polish campaign group is suing an Argentine newspaper it says breached a new law that makes it a criminal offence to suggest Poland was complicit in the Holocaust.
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Homosexuality in Russia, where the influence of the socially conservative Orthodox Church has grown in recent years, was a criminal offence until 1993 and classed as a mental illness until 1999.
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There is no global consensus regarding the youngest age at which a child can be deemed to have such intent, and thus can be tried and convicted of a criminal offence.
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But by the 1970s the government, worried about unemployment, restricted entrance to "useful" migrants and made it a criminal offence both to enter and to stay in the country without authorisation.
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New rules adopted after mass protests in Moscow that followed President Vladimir Putin's 2012 election made it a criminal offence to stage some forms of non-violent protests without a permit.
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French prosecutors are investigating whether Apple, which has admitted slowing older iPhones with software upgrades, deliberately intended to shorten the product's lifetime to make customers replace it—a criminal offence in France.
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The German court said the rebellion charge Puigdemont faced in Spain was not a criminal offence in Germany, while the violence component that would justify a high treason charge was also lacking.
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This, in turn, has helped the school district's police chief, Robert Mock, to make his officers more forbearing; though spitting on the pavement remains a criminal offence, it rarely leads to arrests.
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The current legislation in place is rooted in the Offences Against the Person Act 1861 (OAPA), which made having or administering an abortion a criminal offence that could carry a life sentence.
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"If we have reason to believe a client is seeking to commit a criminal offence by evading taxes, we would report the offence and not do business with the client," it added.
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" Prime Minister Theresa May praised the new law, tweeting that she is "very pleased to see the degrading practice of upskirting become a criminal offence after the tireless work of victims and campaigners.
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Britain and France have introduced specific legislation to make upskirting – the surreptitious taking of photos or videos under women's clothing – a criminal offence, but critics say that more countries need to take action.
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In October Yang Kaili, a livestreamer with tens of millions of followers, was detained for five days for singing a few bars of China's national anthem in a "disrespectful" manner online, a criminal offence.
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FGM has been a criminal offence in Britain since 1985, but legislation in 2003 made it illegal for British citizens to carry out or procure FGM abroad, even in countries where it is legal.
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In Pennsylvania, among other states, it is a criminal offence to take a weapon, including an almost-harmless pair of nail-scissors, into school, for which even a ten-year-old would face arrest.
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Frankfurt prosecutors brought this problem into sharp relief when they ruled earlier this year that alleged rigging Euribor, Libor's Brussels-based equivalent, did not constitute a criminal offence under German law at the time.
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In its most basic form, rolê de chão or "pavement cruising", the targets are walls and the risk is relatively low – although it is still a criminal offence that carries a potential prison sentence.
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French authorities worked to keep the hack from influencing the outcome of the election, with the electoral commission warning the media on Saturday that it could be a criminal offence to republish the data.
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Ghosn could yet face trial in Lebanon if the government there refused an eventual extradition request from Japan and the Lebanese prosecutor determined that the Japanese charges he faced constituted a criminal offence locally.
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There is no suggestion that the advertisers or Google knowingly funded a designated terrorist, a criminal offence in the US that carries a penalty of up to 20 years in prison or a $1m fine.
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Incursion on to the pitch is a criminal offence in England – and, incidentally, incursion means anywhere beyond the stands, so if you fall over the advertising boards while celebrating a goal, you're in trouble sunshine.
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Negative interpretations of topics as the Tiananmen crackdown, the Sino-Japanese War and the South China Sea are strictly censored in China, where cyber laws make it a criminal offence to share non-sanctioned history online.
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The court ruling delighted the filmmakers but angered the Kenya Film Classification Board, which banned the movie in April on the grounds that it promotes homosexuality, which is a criminal offence under a colonial-era law.
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"Doping is not a criminal offence in Estonia, but we are doing all we can to collect information to help our partners," public prosecutor Taavi Pern said in a statement, referring to the Austrian police's arrests.
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The Information Commissioner's Office served notice to SCL Elections, Cambridge Analytica's parent, to provide the information it holds on David Carroll, saying failure to do so would be a criminal offence punishable by an unlimited fine.
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The government has not made boycotts a criminal offence, but those in sectors such as the health service, local authorities and some university student unions that impose them could face penalties, including fines and contract cancellations.
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AMP Ltd, the country's largest wealth manager, traded flat after refuting assertions by lawyers assisting an inquiry into banking misconduct that it had committed a criminal offence when it provided an altered report to the regulator.
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It proposes that people would be able to change their legal gender by making a statutory declaration (rather like a sworn oath; it is important to note that making a false statutory declaration is a criminal offence).
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In December, a poll by the Public Opinion Foundation, a think tank, found 55% of Russians thought domestic violence had to be treated as a criminal offence, with only one in four supporting the 2017 law change.
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A Moscow court sentenced Kotov, a 34-year-old programmer, to four years in prison in September for "repeated" participation in unauthorized rallies, under a widely criticized law that has made non-violent protests a criminal offence.
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" Despite calls that the images constituted child pornography, a spokesperson for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police told HuffPost it investigated the image and determined that it "does not meet the criteria for it to constitute a criminal offence.
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Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said last month he backed the idea of making it a criminal offence to observe U.S. sanctions and said the government should support sanctions-hit Russian companies to ensure that jobs were not lost.
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In Canada, spreading someone's naked photos without their consent, an act known as nonconsensual porn or "revenge porn," has been considered a criminal offence since 2014, when parliament passed Bill C-13: the Protecting Canadians from Online Crime Act.
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Anyone who installs or uses a television or watches the BBC's streaming and catchup service iPlayer must pay the charge or else they are guilty of a criminal offence, resulting in a fine of as much as 1,000 pounds.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Australian refugee advocates and opposition politicians on Saturday condemned the conviction of an Iranian asylum seeker on charges of attempted suicide, a criminal offence in Nauru where he is being held in an Australian-run detention center.
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Although police partially attribute the rise to changes in how crimes are recorded, researchers have found that domestic violence is still widely under-reported as a criminal offence—meaning many more women could be affected than we currently know.
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Any use of AI or virtual reality also needs to be clearly marked in a prominent manner and failure to follow the rules could be considered a criminal offence, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) said on its website.
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Pila - which takes its name from the "Saw" American horror movies - is the latest threat to shake the LGBT+ community in Russia, where homosexuality was deemed a criminal offence until 1993 and classed as a mental illness until 1999.
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"Rafiki" - "Friend" in Swahili - premiered at Cannes, the first Kenyan film to be selected by the prestigious festival, but it was banned at home on the grounds that it promotes homosexuality, a criminal offence under a colonial-era law.
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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden's center-left government wants to fast-track plans to make it a criminal offence to be a member of what it deems a terrorist organization, Justice Minister Morgan Johansson said, bringing Sweden into line with neighbor Norway.
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Torture is not a criminal offence, despite politicians' promises to make it one, and martial law in the region, first imposed more than a decade ago, makes it easy for young men suspected of militancy to be held for weeks arbitrarily.
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Female genital mutilation (FGM) has been a criminal offence in Britain since 1985 and new legislation in 2003 introduced a jail term of up to 14 years for British citizens carrying out FGM abroad, even in countries where it is legal.
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Patel, who oversees competition authorities, said the amendments make it a criminal offence for directors or managers of a firm to collude with their competitors to fix prices, divide markets among themselves or collude in tenders or to acquiesce in collusion.
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The bill's authors, led by Olga Batalina, Mr Volodin's protégé and former doctoral student, say their aim is to close a supposed loophole in a bill passed last summer that downgraded battery to a misdemeanour, but made domestic violence a criminal offence.
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" But that wasn't enough for police, which warned Monday: "It is a criminal offence under the Representation of the People Act 1983 for any voter to accept or agree to accept a gift or similar in return for voting or refraining from voting.
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LONDON, Feb 5 (Reuters) - The British government will ask the public whether the non-payment of the 154.50-pound ($198) annual BBC licence fee on television-watching households should stop being a criminal offence, as crunch funding talks with the broadcaster near.
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They also argued that Sarao's conduct, as it is described in U.S. court filings, does not amount to a criminal offence in the U.K. The latter was seen as a key focus for the hearing on Wednesday which decided on his extradition.
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PRAGUE (Reuters) - A group of Czech lawmakers, including some from the ruling coalition, have proposed making defamation of the president a criminal offence, a sensitive move in a country where such a law was used to lock up dissidents during the communist era.
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While sex with underage girls is already a criminal offence, poor parents often marry off their young daughters for cash using a special dispensation under the marriage law which allows girls as young as 14 to marry with parental or court consent.
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Proving financial crime beyond reasonable doubt is difficult and some lawyers question whether the rigging of Libor, a benchmark for $450 trillion of financial contracts and loans worldwide, should be treated as a criminal offence or if the right people are being prosecuted.
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The government will also make it a criminal offence to commit "wilful and grossly reckless behaviour in relation to a pension scheme", it said in a so-called White Paper outlining government proposals for changes to the supervision of defined benefit, or final salary, pension schemes.
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Less than a year later, revenge porn was taken out from under the wing of the Safer Internet Center and given its own funding, staff, and helpline, all of which coincided with its introduction as a criminal offence carrying a maximum sentence of two years in prison.
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The inquiry followed a complaint by Senator Antonio Trillanes that Duterte had amassed 2.2 billion pesos ($43 million) in three bank accounts between 2006 and 2015, when he was mayor of the southern city of Davao, committing a criminal offence by failing to include them in an official declaration.
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Earlier this year, May's predecessor David Cameron responded to the so-called Panama Papers, millions of documents detailing the use of offshore companies for tax evasion, by promising to make it a criminal offence if companies failed to stop employees from instructing clients on ways of evading tax.
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The investigation was in response to a complaint by Senator Antonio Trillanes that Duterte had amassed 2.2 billion pesos ($43.1 million) in three bank accounts between 2006 and 2015 when he was mayor, and had committed a criminal offence by failing to report that in his official assets declaration.
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The UK Culture Secretary Nicky Morgan used a speech this morning to announce a consultation on whether the British law making it a criminal offence to not pay the BBC license fee should be scrapped, warning that the organisation risked becoming a historical "relic" like the video rentals company Blockbuster.
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He also said he was introducing legislation this year to make it a criminal offence for companies if they fail to stop employees from instructing clients on ways of evading tax, part of what he called some of the most robust action ever taken by a British government to close tax loopholes.
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As Women's Equality Party leader Sophie Walker notes in the Independent, it was originally written in as a loophole in the 1861 Offences Against the Person Act, which made abortion a criminal offence punishable by up to life imprisonment: It may be a groundbreaking piece of legislation, but the Abortion Act doesn't actually decriminalize abortion.
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A neo-Nazi movement which celebrated the brutal murder of Labour MP Jo Cox earlier this year is poised to become the first far-right group to be banned as a terrorist organisation in the UK. Being a member or supporter of National Action will become a criminal offence under the Terrorism Act 2000, if an order by the Home Secretary Amber Rudd is approved by parliament.
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More often it's actual dick pics fired at people's phones, not a parrot-friendly silicone substitute… A patchwork of UK laws already covers at least some of the offensive and abusive communications in question, such as the offence of voyeurism under the Sexual Offences Act 2003, which criminalises certain non-consensual photography taken for sexual gratification — and carries a two-year maximum prison sentence (with the possibility that a perpetrator may be required to be listed on the sexual offender register); while revenge porn was made a criminal offence under section 33 of the Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015.
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