He did not mention the new penal code specifically, however.
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The laws that had been governing officers' use of deadly force in California — Penal Code 835a and Penal Code 196 — dated back to 3923, 22 years after California became a state; they are notably vague.
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Under the Honduran penal code, abortion is illegal in all cases.
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Uganda's penal code does prohibit abandoning and failing to support children.
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The changes are part of a sweeping reform of Singapore's Penal Code.
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While others have criticized the country's penal code for curtailing women's rights.
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Zakka was charged under Article 508 of Iran's penal code, Poblete said.
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"This will also be applied to cases under the" Shariah penal code.
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Yet sex between men remains illegal under section 377A of the penal code.
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"The new penal code is harder on the issue than before," she said.
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Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code was to blame for the predicament.
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Tucked in the state's penal code is a law that predates Roe v.
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In the 1860s, the British introduced Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code.
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However, a part of Shariah is about public law, including the penal code.
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In line with this new definition, we must immediately change the penal code.
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Like the Kenyan penal code, India's also considered it "against the order of nature."
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Cobrapost alleged that this amounts to a criminal offence under the Indian penal code.
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The Malaysian penal code lists the maximum sentence for that offense as two years.
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Criticizing the government is not punishable under Turkey's penal code, while insulting it is.
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These sections of the California Penal Code have since been amended by the California legislature.
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Open carry of "obscene" items, including sex toys, is called out in Texas penal code.
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She has been charged under Section 309 of the Indian Penal Code for attempting suicide.
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City police said they were arrested for offences under the Penal Code related to rioting.
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However, the penal code at that time allowed a defendant to be sentenced to probation.
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First is Sedition Act, second is penal code, third is Printing Presses and Publications Act.
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Under Pakistan's penal code, the offense of blasphemy is punishable by death or life imprisonment.
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The sentence referred to here, though, is a punishment meted out by the PENAL CODE.
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The proposed penal code, if passed, would usher in a raft of sweeping new laws.
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The Socialist government has appointed a panel to review relevant parts of the penal code.
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"If the penal code is approved, I don't know our future in Indonesia," Ael said.
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Kenya prosecuted 595 people under the Penal Code between 2010 and early 2014, the government reported.
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The penal code mandated two months in prison for any woman caught flouting the dress code.
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Eradicating racism is a matter of evolution; it's largely beyond the reach of the penal code.
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"According to the penal code in California, it's actually not illegal what she did," he says.
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According to Article 225 of the Islamic Penal Code, you are sentenced to death by stoning.
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Palau - 2014: The Pacific Island state introduced a new penal code, decriminalizing same-sex relations. 10.
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Many called for greater press freedom and for an overhaul of the country's conservative penal code.
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The charge can bring a maximum prison sentence of two years under the Swedish Penal Code.
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Under the Iranian penal code, a woman could be sentenced to a hundred lashes three times.
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The bill alters Texas' penal code, eliminating the exception for abortions from the definition of criminal homicide.
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India's supreme court started a review of the part of the penal code that criminalises gay sex.
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" The military penal code bans homosexual activity under Article 92-6 "to keep the military community sound.
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Medina has objected to the penal code a number of times, encouraging decriminalization in these three circumstances.
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This month, the Sultanate of Brunei confirmed plans to impose a new penal code with brutal punishments.
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However, the language of California's penal code does not speak to this history of racial violence specifically.
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The new cabinet should introduce legislation to repeal religious defamation and related crimes in Jordan's penal code.
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Palau The Pacific Island state introduced a new penal code in 2014, decriminalising same-sex relations. 9.
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The vote would have been on a new penal code, which the government agreed on last week.
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Turkish officials cited a part of the Turkish penal code that concerns the leaking of state secrets.
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The order cited a part of the Turkish penal code that addresses the leaking of state secrets.
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Palau The Pacific Island state introduced a new penal code in 2014, decriminalizing same-sex relations. 9.
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Or respect the United States penal code (this was, after all, the height of the Jail Blazers era).
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Many fear such a move would open doors for other states to bring in the Islamic penal code.
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Additionally, the bill amends language throughout the penal code to make references to buyers and sellers gender neutral.
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The amendment to the penal code would still require three more readings if it is to become law.
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But officials have vowed that the section of the penal code called Section 377A will not be enforced.
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In 2004 she helped change the Brazilian Penal Code laws on abortion for the first time in decades.
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But marijuana is mentioned only vaguely in the Islamic penal code, and the police pay it little heed.
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Moreover, there is no provision in the Texas Penal Code that prohibits carrying a long gun in public.
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Mozambique - 2014: Two articles in Mozambique's Portuguese colonial-era penal code criminalizing "vices against nature" were repealed. 9.
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Though bullfighting in California is illegal, religious events or festivals, according to the state's penal code, are exempt.
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Section 377 of Myanmar&aposs colonial-era Penal Code outlaws same-sex activities, according to the Myanmar Times.
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To do that, the bills amended the state's penal code, including the part dealing with sodomy and bestiality.
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Despite his announcement on the death penalty, Brunei's leader said Sunday he stood by his new penal code overall.
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But Kenya's penal code, which hasn't been revised since 1976, still considers anything other than heterosexual sex a felony.
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Liz Krueger, arguing that domestic abusers could be charged under several other crimes in the New York penal code.
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Muslim Turkey's constitution strictly separates state and religion but its penal code makes it a crime to insult religion.
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Mozambique Two articles in Mozambique's Portuguese colonial-era penal code criminalising "vices against nature" were repealed in 2014. 8.
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Misappropriation of public funds does, but "rebellion" is only vaguely similar to "high treason" in the German penal code.
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Instead, Congress passed a penal code that slashes prison sentences for corruption by almost two-thirds in some cases.
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That legislation was accompanied by penal code reforms to further dissuade public dissent and unregulated use of public space.
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That they all agreed to repeal Section 522, as the provision of the penal code is known, is significant.
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According to the U.S. Penal Code, the charge carries a penalty of up to 10 years in federal prison.
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It was reintroduced in 2015, and was set to replace the 100-year-old Dutch colonial-era penal code.
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Mozambique Two articles in Mozambique's Portuguese colonial-era penal code criminalizing "vices against nature" were repealed in 2014. 8.
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THE prudish wording of India's colonial-era penal code of 1860 has long cast a baleful shadow over gay people.
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The parliament, which supports the president, has already called for changes to the penal code that would curtail civil liberties.
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As stated in the book, Turner was convicted of three counts of felony sexual assault under the California Penal Code.
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The capers became known as "419 scams" after the section of the national penal code that dealt - ineffectively - with fraud.
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The lawyer also said that he believes that the state penal code only applies to audio recording, not video recording.
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Both women will be formally charged on Wednesday under section 302 of the penal code, which carries the death penalty.
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Add to this Article 317 in the Dominican Republic's penal code, which threatens prison sentences when it comes to abortion.
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The government released a statement on Saturday saying that the Sharia penal code would come into full force on Wednesday.
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In its landmark September ruling, the Supreme Court said the 157-year-old Penal Code violated the right to health.
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Wham faced similar charges of organizing public assemblies without police permits and refusing to sign statements under the Penal Code.
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Seychelles - 2016: The Indian Ocean island state repealed the parts of its penal code that criminalized same-sex relations. 6.
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There's also legal precedence for removing what Indian law deems overtly sexual products under Section 292 of the penal code.
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A 2013 update to Brazil's penal code made it easier to turn defendants into cooperating witnesses by offering them leniency.
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Mr. Reitz was involved in revising the American Law Institute's Model Penal Code to recommend the elimination of parole release.
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The office of California Attorney General Xavier Becerra had defended the law, which is part of the state's penal code.
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The penal code was amended in March to no longer allow judges to grant reduced sentences for perpetrators of honor crimes.
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Mauritania, a vast desert country in northwest Africa, is an Islamic Republic with a penal code partly based on sharia law.
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These include the penal code, International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) Act, and Prevention of Terrorism Act, he said.
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Around this time, the British introduced clause 295-A to the Indian Penal Code, prohibiting insults to religion or religious beliefs.
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Legal experts say prosecutions could be brought under the Penal Code, which makes it an offence to cause hurt to another.
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The Socialist government has appointed a panel to review the penal code, particularly the laws relating to sexual abuse and assault.
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The key to reversing this situation is a new penal code, and to improve the response level of the judiciary system.
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The offense is punishable by up to six months in jail and a $2,000 fine, according to the Texas penal code.
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Currently, the country awaits a landmark ruling that would decriminalize homosexuality in the penal code that hasn't been revised since 1976.
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Seychelles In 2016 the Indian Ocean island state repealed the parts of its penal code that criminalised same-sex relations. 103.
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Sao Tome & Principe A new penal code adopted in 2012 removed the criminalisation of "acts against nature" in Sao Tome & Principe.
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The murder charge will come under Section 302 of the penal code and carries a mandatory death sentence if found guilty.
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By April 3, the nation, which is predominantly Muslim, had begun adhering to a new penal code with harsh corporal punishments.
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A journalist at Akhbar al-Youm, Khaoula Ajaafri, said the penal code was "being used to crack down on critical journalists".
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The new penal code was implemented by the Sultan of Brunei, Hassanal Bolkiah, who also acts as the country's prime minister.
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Seychelles In 2016 the Indian Ocean island state repealed the parts of its penal code that criminalized same-sex relations. 103.
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Sao Tome & Principe A new penal code adopted in 2012 removed the criminalization of "acts against nature" in Sao Tome & Principe.
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GAN Integrity's anticorruption portal notes that "The Penal Code criminalises active and passive bribery and bribery of national and foreign officials."
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Accordingly, a court would likely determine that participation in daily fantasy sports leagues is illegal gambling 'under section 47.02 ofthe Penal Code.
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When filming started back in January 2018, the law known as section 377 of the Indian penal code was still in effect.
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The latter could be deemed premeditated first-degree murder under Article 230 of the Egyptian penal code, which carries a death penalty.
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Under the "two-party consent" penal code, Swift can argue that she had a reasonable expectation that the call would be private.
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Angola's parliament adopted a new penal code on January 23 for the first time since it gained independence from Portugal in 1975.
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That's not how they roll in a regime that Human Rights Watch points out has no written penal code or criminal rights.
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Kem Sokha had been charged with "colluding with foreigners" under Article 443 of Cambodia's penal code, the court said in a statement.
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In 2009, the Delhi High Court decriminalized Section 377 of the Indian penal code, which had made same-sex sexual activity illegal.
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Article 299 of the Turkish penal code states that insulting the president can lead to as many as four years in jail.
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"There is absolutely no definition or mention of vapes or electronic cigarettes under any Indian penal code, amendment or law," he said.
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Both are crimes under Morocco's penal code, and she faces up to two years in jail; her doctor also faces jail time.
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There are a few places in New York, like bathrooms and dressing rooms, that are protected from surveillance by the penal code.
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The proposed revisions to the penal code, which dates from the Dutch colonial era, reach deep into the private lives of Indonesians.
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Although there is no law protecting the flower, the state penal code requires written landowner permission to remove and sell plant material.
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Stone's roughly three-year sentence is less than half of what prosecutors recommended based on the penal code — seven to nine years.
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Beginning on April 3, any individuals found guilty of the offenses will be stoned to death, according to a new penal code.
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Human rights groups were quick to express horror at the penal code, which will also order amputation as a punishment for theft.
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A source close to the investigations told Reuters Najib may be charged with dishonest misappropriation of property under the Malaysian Penal Code.
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In a rare move, prosecutors invoked Section 311 of Pakistan's penal code in the case against Waseem Baloch, making the state a complainant.
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In Iran's Islamic Penal Code, it says the punishment for a Muslim who has consumed alcohol is 80 lashes, according to Amnesty International.
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But as Cherni pointed out, the country's laws — including its penal code — have not yet been updated in light of the new constitution.
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The California penal code criminalizes the smoking and ingesting of cannabis in prison, but it doesn't address possession, Presiding Justice Vance Raye wrote.
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He was found to have violated California's penal code by having sex, at the age of 20, with his 16-year-old girlfriend.
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Guinea-Bissau, a former Portuguese colony, re-wrote its penal code in 1993 with no provisions against homosexuality, according to an ILGA report.
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It proposes to end the death penalty and legalize homosexuality, which the current penal code outlaws and punishes with three years in prison.
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Their confessions were taped and aired by the police before prosecutors questioned them, the report also said, in violation of Egypt's penal code.
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Left-wing politicians have called for the arcane part of the penal code which allowed Mr Erdogan to request prosecution to be scrapped.
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A justice ministry official in the department in charge of legislation declined to comment on the proposed change to Ivory Coast's penal code.
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A generation ago, the Italian penal code prescribed prison sentences as short as three years for men who killed women out of jealousy.
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In May, the country's penal code was amended to punish acts like disrupting school activity and painting on public walls with jail time.
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The Socialist government, which is facing a national election on Sunday, has appointed a panel to review relevant parts of the penal code.
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The Penal Code Amendment Act and Revised Anatomy Act, created new offenses and tougher penalties for those who attack albinos in the country.
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The American Law Institute is currently re-examining the sexual-assault provisions of the Model Penal Code for the first time since 1962.
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While his boss made showy court appearances, Roman devoted himself to writing briefs, taking advantage of an encyclopedic knowledge of the penal code.
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Angola - January 2019: removed a ban on "vices against nature" from its penal code, which had been interpreted as criminalizing gay sex. 3.
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The state's current penal code excludes abortion from being considered homicide or assault; this bill would have removed those portions of the code.
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Many adopted the laws directly from the Indian Penal Code, which was seen at the time as a model for the other colonies.
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Moreover, in the mid-19th century the Ottomans initiated a major Reform (Tanzimat) era, which included the Imperial Ottoman Penal Code of 1858.
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The law, known as Section 259, was introduced in the 1860s by British colonizers who made it a part of India's Penal Code.
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One section of the penal code, for example, criminalizes assault on a woman "with intent to outrage her modesty," without defining specific offenses.
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Jordan is also working on amendments to its anti-human trafficking law and the penal code to strengthen sentences for human trafficking violations.
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Penny Wong Brunei's penal code would be in breach of the UN Declaration of Human Rights, Wong posted in a statement on Twitter.
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The penal code, helpfully, exempts Muslims from prosecution for statutory rape providing the victim is married to the perpetrator and is 12 or older.
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Penal Code section 632 forbids recording any "confidential communication" (defined more or less as any non-public conversation) without the consent of all parties.
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According to Vietnam's penal code, anyone found guilty of "abusing power in performance of official duties" may be jailed for up to 15 years.
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He had been charged with "colluding with foreigners" under Article 443 of Cambodia's penal code, the Phnom Penh Municipal Court said in a statement.
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The government is also expected to include a measure in the penal code that would decriminalize abortion, although it would not legalize the practice.
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Article 308 originates from a 1911 Ottoman legal code, largely based on the Napoleonic penal code of 1810, according to the official news agency.
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In 2014 India's Supreme Court recognised a third gender, yet the British-era penal code still criminalises sexual activities against the "order of nature".
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According to the constitution and penal code, Ahmadis are not Muslims and may not call themselves Muslims or assert they are adherents of Islam.
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Many of these new "crimes" were already prohibited under the country's Syariah Penal Code Order, published in October 2013, but had not been enforced.
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Your cartoon about the person in chains with the Sedition Act around his neck and the Penal Code as handcuffs … That's a self portrait.
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The case follows controversy over a proposed bill that would have introduced stricter forms of the Islamic penal code, including punishments such as whipping.
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Article 534 in the Lebanese penal code says sexual acts that contradict the "order of nature" can mean up to a year in jail.
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At the hearing, the Republican legislator who sponsored the bill, Representative Tony Tinderholt, pushed for his idea to ban abortion in the penal code.
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The law is known as Section 377, and was introduced by British colonizers in the 1860s, who made it part the Indian Penal Code.
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It upholds the constitutional right to identity, by decriminalizing Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code imposed during British rule, which punishes "unnatural" sex.
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The Socialist leader mentioned "prohibiting prostitution", reforming the penal code so that only explicit assent can signal consent, and eliminating the gender pay gap.
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Instead, though, press freedom advocates say the penal code has been used increasingly to punish critical journalists for offenses seemingly unrelated to their work.
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The government reacted by amending the penal code in February, making "insulting the head of state" and "insulting a state constituent body" criminal offenses.
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The new penal code was announced in May 2014, by the Sultan of Brunei, Hassanal Bolkiah, who also acts as the country's prime minister.
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As in Malaysia and other British colonies, same-sex relations are outlawed in Uganda under current laws based of the old British penal code.
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It said Ulker would face charges under articles 299 and 301 of the penal code covering insults to the president, the nation and state institutions.
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OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso – Burkina Faso&aposs parliament has abolished the death penalty by adopting a new penal code that strikes it as a possible sentence.
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His government binned old penal code provisions that allowed those who murdered female relatives in the name of family honour to seek reduced prison sentences.
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Its Islamic penal code includes the death penalty for gay sex and up to 100 lashes for lesbians, according to global LGBT+ rights group ILGA.
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El Salvador's Legislative Assembly is considering two amendments to its penal code relating to the abortion ban, neither of which is by any means comprehensive.
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"We are running the risk of being accused of fornication punishable under the penal code," said Adam, who does not have a legal marriage certificate.
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"We passed a new penal code that is much tougher on all of these organized crimes, particularly within government," he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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Britain, Australia, New Zealand and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights have all called on Brunei to abandon changes to its penal code.
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After the vote, administration officials said they planned to ease abortion penalties in an overhaul of the penal code that will be presented Aug. 21.
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Angola In January 210 Angola removed a ban on "vices against nature" from its penal code, which had been interpreted as criminalising gay sex. 22012.
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Defending Iran's record, Mr. Avaei said the government had thoroughly revised its penal code and criminal procedures to increase safeguards and rights of the accused.
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Mr. Raza was initially charged under a section of the penal code that punishes derogatory remarks about other religious personalities for up to two years.
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Under sections of Kenya's penal code, gay sex - or "carnal knowledge against the order of nature" - is punishable by up to 14 years in jail.
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The measure, aimed at overhauling Indonesia's penal code, had appeared likely to win approval next Tuesday from the country's outgoing Parliament, with Mr. Joko's blessing.
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Indonesia's Minister of Law and Human Rights Yasonna Laoly reintroduced the bill in 2015 to replace the 100-year-old Dutch colonial-era penal code.
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The law took abortion out of the penal code, where it was allowed as an exclusion, and included it as a right in health law.
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Under the Danish penal code, manslaughter is used to describe the deliberate killing of a person and there is no distinction between manslaughter and murder.
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Angola In January 210 Angola removed a ban on "vices against nature" from its penal code, which had been interpreted as criminalizing gay sex. 22012.
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Attorney general Mohamed Apandi Ali said the women will be formally charged on Wednesday under section 302 of the penal code, which carries the death penalty.
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The amendment to the penal code passed the 44-member National Assembly with just a single dissenting vote, the local newspapers Kuensel and The Bhutanese reported.
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Seeking to temper the backlash, the sultan earlier this month said the death penalty would not be imposed in the implementation of the penal code changes.
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Keeping punishments for abortion in the penal code could, arguably, have allowed domestic abusers to be charged with inducing abortion in the event a survivor miscarries.
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Abortion is part of New York's penal code rather than its public-health code, and criminalizes termination after 213 weeks except to save the mother's life.
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"We have six men in Denmark, against whom I believe there are grounds to lay charges of violating terror provisions in the penal code," Nilas said.
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Ulker will face charges under articles 299 and 301 of the penal code covering insults to the president, the nation and state institutions, the SPK said.
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The report acknowledged that Thailand's penal code does not define torture as a distinct criminal offense or unequivocally prohibit courts from using evidence obtained through torture.
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Representatives of the conservative judiciary have signaled that they will resist any effort to change Iran's penal code, which they believe reflects Islamic values and culture.
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In June, a panel of three judges ruled that sections of the penal code banning gay sex were unconstitutional as they violate privacy, liberty, and dignity.
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While the new laws reflect a severe escalation in enforcement, Mr. Yusof claimed that Brunei's toughened penal code was in line with international human rights standards.
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But his main place of business is in New York, and the New York State penal code also governs the financing aspect of Mr. Cohen's actions.
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LGBT activist Lini Zurlia wrote on Twitter before Widodo announced the delay that the planned penal code "was basically Aceh's criminal law expanded into national law".
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It's definitely a positive program on Kaep's part ... and greatly needed ... but we gotta say, by this point we'd think CB had the penal code memorized.
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Human Rights Campaign Director of Global Partnership Jean Freedberg said the moratorium was an important step but added the new Islamic penal code itself needed to go.
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Its "vices against nature" law was done away with by a new penal code, another African country freeing itself from the policies inherited from its colonial masters.
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He added that Iran's penal code continued to allow punishment by flogging including for drug and alcohol consumption, theft, adultery and mixing of the sexes in public.
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"As this is a first offense, I can see where leniency would beckon," the woman said at his sentencing, taking a page from the California Penal Code.
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In addition to creating a right to abortion under New York's public-health law, the Reproductive Health Act strips punishments for abortion from the state's penal code.
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Kuala Lumpur (CNN)A proposal in Malaysia's Parliament to introduce the strict Islamic penal code known as hudud law is threatening to split the country's government apart.
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Antonio Panzeri, the chairman of the European Parliament subcommittee on human rights, said the country should "bring its penal code into full compliance with human rights obligations".
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The Islamic penal code punishes crimes such as sodomy with flogging and death by stoning, and its introduction was widely condemned by women's activists around the world.
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The university's information office said they shared the international condemnation of Brunei's new penal code and backed the United Nations' call to stop this entering into force.
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"I ask that the parliamentary immunity of CDU MP Detlef Seif be lifted for prosecution under paragraph 103 of the penal code," Mr. Böhmermann wrote on Twitter.
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Clarifies the Texas Penal Code by removing "a church, synagogue, or other established place of religious worship" from the list of prohibited locations for carrying a firearm.
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Under the Egyptian penal code, anyone who receives funding from a foreign source with the intention of "compromis[ing] national unity" can be subject to life imprisonment.
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If the amendment to the penal code passes the upper house of the Asian nation's parliament, 29 countries will remain worldwide where same-sex relations are illegal.
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Law 1257 of the Colombian Penal Code, for example, passed in 2008, states that the punishment for "violent physical access" is 12 to 20 years in prison.
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Amendments to the Penal Code foresee up to three years' jail and a fine of up to 10,000 leva ($5,500) for disseminating untrue information about an epidemic.
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The California Penal Code Section 12020 through 12027 and also the Second Amendment of a Constitution guarantees the citizen the right to bear arms on public property .
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In early 2018, a large coalition of conservative Muslim groups presented a case to the Indonesian Constitutional Court to introduce a new penal code criminalizing LGBT relations.
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The lyrics of this famous love song are the text of Article 301 of the Turkish Penal Code (TPC), which is a threat to freedom of expression.
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In 1980, making a derogatory remark against any Islamic personage was defined as a crime under Pakistan's Penal Code Section 295, punishable by three years in prison.
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Botswana's penal code, which dates back to the 1960s, when the southern African country was a British colony, contained laws that directly discriminated against same-sex couples.
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Under the state's penal code, if the actions that led to the death of a fetus was consented by the mother, it would not be considered a crime.
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Violations of California Penal Code 647(j) are charged as a misdemeanor, and punishable by up to six months in jail and/or a maximum fine of $1,000.
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Bolsonaro suggested that he wanted states to set their own policies for mineral rights, environment controls and even the penal code instead of waiting for legislation from Brasilia.
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Section 377 of the Indian Penal code has criminalized homosexuality since British rule in 1860, banning sexual activities "against the order of nature" under threat of life imprisonment.
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The bill, called the Abolition of Abortion in Texas Act, would remove an exception for abortion from the Texas penal code for homicide, according to the Texas Observer.
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Under the Islamic Penal Code that came into force in June 3.13, the right of the aggrieved to insist on such retribution cannot be overruled by the judiciary.
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The sentence for attempting to kill the president is up to six years, while criminal conspiracy charges can face up to 10 years, according to Honduras' penal code.
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The Palestinian penal code dates to the 1960s and has been criticized for inadequate protection for women and lenient penalties for men who kill them in honor crimes.
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Editorialists have denounced a "moral dictatorship"; protesters have gathered outside her trial; Twitter commenters have joked about how many articles of the penal code they have broken themselves.
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The big difference between Judaism and Islam here is that the former lost political power nearly 2,000 years ago, at which time the Halakha's penal code became ineffective.
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Many protesters believe that the amendment to the penal code is part of a wider attempt to suppress criticism, especially from non-governmental organizations and environmentalists, said Harsono.
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In May 2014, Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah announced he would be imposing a new penal code based on Sharia law, an Islamic legal system which outlines strict corporal punishments.
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Under section 164 of Botswana's Penal Code, "carnal knowledge of any person against the order of nature," was an offense that carried a maximum sentence of seven years imprisonment.
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The military junta that ruled until 22016 frequently used other laws or the Penal Code - also inherited from the colonial era - to lock up its critics alongside common criminals.
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The bill does not propose any changes to the sections of the penal code that outlaw sex trafficking and offenses related to minors, both of which would remain illegal.
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Under the penal code, any person who has "carnal knowledge against the order of nature" - gay sex - or anyone who accedes to anal sex is liable to life imprisonment.
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Kenyans in particular took an interest in the abolishment; their high court will hand down a decision related to its penal code provisions on same-sex conduct next month.
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Avai told the forum that in Iran, the Islamic penal code and criminal procedure code had been revised to be more efficient and safeguard the rights of the accused.
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The military junta that ruled until 2011 frequently used other laws or the Penal Code - also inherited from the colonial era - to lock up its critics alongside common criminals.
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Their charges range from criminal conspiracy, waging war against the Indian government and murder under sections of the Indian Penal Code and the Indian Explosives and Explosive Substances Act.
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Khurshid then filed a case against Wallace under Section 420 (Cheating) and 120B (Criminal Conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code and Section 66(D) of the Information Technology Act.
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The 2001 Patriot Act created a legal definition of "domestic terrorism" but that particular crime doesn't exist under the federal penal code, except in a handful of narrow circumstances.
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"Brunei's new penal code is barbaric to the core, imposing archaic punishments for acts that shouldn't even be crimes," said Phil Robertson, deputy Asia director of Human Rights Watch.
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" Introduced in 1861, Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code imposes a 10-year prison sentence on "carnal intercourse against the order of nature with man, woman or animal.
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It's all spelled out in California Penal Code 632 -- an invasion of privacy statute that essentially forbids the recording of a conversation without the knowledge/consent of both parties.
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The case sparked weeks of outrage in the North African kingdom, with many speaking out in defense of press freedoms and others asking for reforms to the penal code.
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Outrage and protests over the initial verdict prompted a government promise to change the law, but critics say the Manresa case shows how the penal code is still outdated.
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She's sponsored some legislation, including a May resolution that would bring sanctions against Brunei officials who implement a draconian new penal code that prescribes death for homosexuality and adultery.
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Being gay in Kenya Kenya is a deeply conservative country where homosexuality is criminalized in the country's penal code and is punishable by up to 14 years in prison.
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In response, the Erdoğan and his Justice and Development Party, or AKP, updated the penal code in 210 to recognize women as individuals and give women equal rights in property.
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Although the death penalty is not expressly written into the country's penal code, Saudi Arabia follows Sharia law, which states that same-sex activity is punishable with death by stoning.
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The sultan announced the kingdom's long-term moratorium on the death penalty would also extend to the new penal code, although he didn't elaborate whether this was a new decision.
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This is a small country surrounded by homophobic nations including Guinea, Gambia and Senegal, but homosexuality has never been illegal here since the adoption of its penal code in 1993.
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According to the California penal code, lewd conduct is punishable by up to six months in prison, but the penalty can be worse if coupled with an indecent exposure charge.
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Each line revoked a provision of the existing penal code, ranging from the criminalization of women for dress infractions, such as wearing trousers, to the authorization of their public flogging.
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Women activists have branded last week's verdict a "disgrace" and have demanded that the government reform the penal code to allow for a broader definition of rape and tougher sentences.
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He has pledged to abolish Article 230 of the penal code, which criminalizes same-sex relations, increase punishments for homophobic attacks, and allow transgender people to change their legal identity.
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Many within the judicial system are skeptical that there can be a fundamental change in the way things operate without a wholesale overhaul of the penal code and the judiciary.
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But it steers clear of suggesting sweeping changes to Brazil's strict counternarcotics policies and penal code, which several scholars and activists say are at the heart of the violence epidemic.
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For Myanmar's LGBT community however, the festival has become an annual haven, in a country where a colonial era law -- section 377 of the penal code -- still bans homosexual acts.
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Two weeks earlier, Jordan, too, closed its "marry your rapist" loophole, and has also amended an article in its penal code that granted lesser penalties for "fits of fury," a.k.a.
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Kirchner, the former president, threatened to expel foreigners who committed crimes in an overhaul of the penal code even after her government had legalized the irregular status of many immigrants.
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Anyone found guilty of the offenses will be stoned to death, according to a new penal code based on Sharia law, an Islamic legal system that outlines strict corporal punishments.
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" Helen Clark, former New Zealand Prime Minister Clark said the introduction of the new penal code is "shocking news" and "provides for death by stoning as punishment for gay sex.
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It's also criminalized under section 377 of the Penal Code, which is a law that's rarely used, although its very existence illustrates how the LGBTQ community continues to be marginalized.
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"We have arrested a doctor and another junior staff member under section 304 of the Indian penal code for causing death due to negligence," Mumbai police spokesperson Deepak Deoraj told AFP.
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Wainaina was also known for his decision to live as an openly gay man in Kenya, where gay sex is illegal under a colonial-era penal code and homosexuality is taboo.
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Given that homosexuality is still illegal under Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, many people hope that the supreme court's move will pave the way for LGBTQ equality in India.
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"Evelyn has probably committed a crime, but it is not a crime that is included in the penal code," said Arnau Baulenas, one of Hernández's attorneys, during her trial in August.
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"Based on the medical examination report, it was established that the suspects were involved in sexual acts punishable under the penal code," police spokesman Patrick Onyango told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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According to the country's penal code, abortion is only allowed "if necessary to protect the mother's health" and is otherwise punishable with up to two years in prison and a fine.
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The Israel Securities Authority (ISA) said in a brief statement it is investigating suspected violations of the securities law and penal code and that further details remained under a gag order.
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The sultan, presumably, did not have that kind of theft in mind when he pushed for the adoption of a harsh Islamic penal code, which came into force on April 3rd.
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The provisions of the revised penal code may also encourage violence and discrimination against women, on the basis of sexual orientation, and against religious minorities in Brunei, the UN said Monday.
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The crime, based on a Civil War-era statute now codified at Section 2384 of the federal penal code, rarely has been invoked in our history because it is so heinous.
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While homosexuality is not mentioned in the Egyptian penal code, and technically it is not illegal, members of the LGBT community are often arrested and charged with pornography, prostitution or debauchery.
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And it has renewed some hope for the repeal of other repressive laws, including one requiring the "registration and control of eunuchs" and marital rape exceptions in the Indian Penal Code.
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" And a law review article said the bill "explicitly puts parental responsibility for truancy in the penal code and is a clear legislative mandate of the state's intention to prosecute parents.
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"Brunei's Penal Code is a deeply flawed piece of legislation containing a range of provisions that violate human rights," Rachel Chhoa-Howard, a researcher for Amnesty International, said in a statement.
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In late April, a grand jury indicted Siatta on charges of home invasion causing harm — a Class X felony, the second-most serious category of crime in the Illinois penal code.
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At a time when El Salvador uses its abortion ban to justify the wrongful imprisonment of women who suffer from obstetric complications, this vote to amend the penal code is critical.
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Head of the Indonesia Legal Aid Foundation, Asfinawati, who like many Indonesians goes by one name, said that the new penal code is a set back for democracy in the country.
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"The court has granted me the honor of being the first Iranian to be convicted under Article 83 of the Civil Penal Code," Vafadari wrote in his letter, dated January 21.
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Sex with animals and "unnatural" sex with other humans were first combined in Michigan law in 1897, and the connection was maintained when the state penal code was overhauled in 1931.
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It would repeal sections of the penal code that make prostitution, "loitering for the purposes of prostitution"—a measure decriminalization advocates call the "walking while trans ban"— and "promoting" prostitution misdemeanors.
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If Lochte and Feigen are found guilty of falsely reporting a crime or misdemeanor, they could face one to six months' detention or a fine, according a translation of Brazil's penal code.
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"Brunei's new penal code is barbaric to the core, imposing archaic punishments for acts that shouldn't even be crimes," Human Rights Watch official Phil Robertson said in a statement, per the Times.
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While free speech is enshrined in the Constitution, it has been undermined by various sections of the penal code, the courts and successive governments, and is not always supported by the public.
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He relies upon California Penal Code Section 632, which makes it illegal to eavesdrop on communications without all parties' consent, if one of the parties reasonably believes that the conversation is confidential.
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The charges against the five ranged from criminal conspiracy, waging war against the Indian government and murder under sections of the Indian Penal Code and the Indian Explosives and Explosive Substances Act.
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Police usually justify telecom shutdowns with section 144 of the federal penal code, a law that permits Indian states to disrupt the assembly of ten or more people if they suspect violence.
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Ngar Min Swe has been arrested under section 124A of the penal code, which says anyone who incites disaffection towards government "shall be punished with life imprisonment", according to the Facebook post.
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The penal code of 1810, established by Napoleon, did not say much about sexual behavior, "as if sexuality were not to fall under the law," the philosopher Michel Foucault said in 1978.
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The penal code changes had been in the works for some time, but they appeared to reflect Mr. Macri's realization that the reproductive-rights movement in Argentina was now an established force.
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Laws criminalizing defamation, the Official Secrets Act, the Unlawful Associations Act, the 1934 Aircraft Act, and section 131 of the Myanmar Penal Code have all been used against journalists in recent years.
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Under Norway's penal code, raising children within Islamic State territory qualifies as participation in a terrorist organization, prosecutors argued in the first case against a Norwegian woman who had left for Syria.
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If the books have a value of less than $200, Sanders will face no more than 93 days in prison or a maximum fine of $500, per the Michigan State Penal Code.
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UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein said at a press conference in Jakarta on February 7 he was "greatly concerned" about the proposed revisions of the penal code.
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International law forbade the execution of anyone younger than eighteen, regardless of the fact that the Iranian penal code made the age of criminal responsibility nine for girls and fifteen for boys.
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These common law crimes—malfeasance (doing a wrongful act), misfeasance (doing a lawful act in a wrong manner) or nonfeasance (willful neglect of duty)—all can be prosecuted under the Michigan Penal Code.
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The two countries have signed agreements on criminal acts such as terrorism and the penal code may apply to both Greeks and foreigners in that case, regardless of where any crimes were committed.
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On top of that, Mr Esquivel-Quintana's behaviour would not have been a crime under either the Model Penal Code (a project in the 1960s to standardise state criminal laws) or federal law.
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Court documents allege that she also violated the California penal code by recording Wright without consent when she recorded a phone conversation and screengrabbed an image of his genitalia during a Skype chat.
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"The provision was inserted into the penal code in 2004 and it was specifically with regards to murder committed in the name of honor," Sahar Bandial, an attorney based in Lahore told CNN.
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"The provision was inserted into the penal code in 2004 and it was specifically with regards to murder committed in the name of honor," Sahar Bandial, an attorney based in Lahore, told CNN.
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The decriminalization model the group proposes involves repealing parts of the state penal code that deem prostitution and "promoting prostitution" criminal behavior, and target transgender women and transgender women of color in particular.
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It makes our work a little more difficult because people aren't in possession of the large quantities that they used to be, especially when our penal code sections on drugs are weight-driven.
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Spanish prime minister Pedro Sanchez has already promised to introduce a new law on sexual consent, and a committee of experts has been formed to reform the Spanish penal code on sexual violence.
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The reinterpretation of Brazil's penal code, allowing convicts to exhaust their appeal options before being locked up, could benefit dozens of high-profile prisoners, among them Lula, jailed last year for taking bribes.
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Section 164 of Botswana's Penal Code previously found that the offense of carnal knowledge of any person against the order of nature carried a maximum sentence of seven years imprisonment, the newspaper noted.
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One of the biggest victories in recent years has been statements by the Lebanese Psychiatric Society and Lebanese Psychological Association that could reshape the narrative around an ambiguous article in Lebanon's penal code.
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However, in a rare response to criticism aimed at the oil-rich state, the sultan said the death penalty would not be imposed in the implementation of the Syariah Penal Code Order (SPCO).
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Human Rights Watch suggested on Wednesday that Brunei's new penal code violated global prohibitions against torture and other mistreatment, adding that adultery and homosexuality were protected against the death penalty by international law.
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The measure moves abortion regulations from the state penal code to the health code, recognizing abortion as a public health issue rather than a crime from which the state had carved out exclusions.
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Also appearing will be Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, the president of Ghana, whose penal code "uniquely distinguishes between non-consensual and consensual sexual intercourse in 'an unnatural manner'", according to the trust.
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On the ground, the reorganization will significantly dilute the ability of Jammu and Kashmir representatives to govern their own affairs by making 106 federal laws applicable to the region, including India's penal code.
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Although that part of the Tunisian penal code had largely fallen from use, last year a judge ordered a 13-year-girl who had been raped and become pregnant to marry her attacker.
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Our penal code even treats with particular leniency murders committed by "any legally married person who, having surprised his spouse in the act of committing sexual intercourse with another person," kills those involved.
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On Tuesday, the Indonesian Parliament decided to postpone passing the new penal code, meaning it will likely be delayed until the next Parliament session, according to the Speaker of the House Bambang Soesatyo.
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Under stages two and three of the penal code, sex between two men and adultery both carry a punishment of stoning to death, while sex between two women is punishable with 100 lashes.
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It gives local governments the right to introduce so-called "living laws" not covered in the penal code, including sharia-inspired regulations such as the mandatory wearing of the hijab, or Islamic scarf.
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These changes often followed general efforts to reform the penal code and campaigns by public health officials to counter the spread of H.I.V., said Neela Ghoshal, a senior researcher with Human Rights Watch.
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Botswana became the latest country to decriminalize gay sex when the High Court rejected as unconstitutional sections of the penal code that punish same-sex relations with up to seven years in prison.
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The case was registered under Section 66 of the Information Technology Act, which deals with any unauthorized access to a computer network, and Section 379 of the Indian Penal Code, which deals with theft.
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After a scheduled review of Article 522 of the penal code, Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri tweeted that a parliamentary committee had agreed to push forward with a plan that would abolish the law.
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The initial felony complaint in Turner's case included two counts of rape under the California Penal Code (PC261(a)(3); PC261(a)(4)), however both of these counts were dismissed prior to Turner's trial.
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Shams' director Mounir Baatour said the court victory would help its campaign to legalize same-sex relations, which are punishable with three years imprisonment under Article 230 of the North African country's penal code.
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The Supreme Court threw out a 2009 ruling by the Delhi High Court and said that only parliament could change Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, widely interpreted to refer to homosexual sex.
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After 113/211, the U.S. Patriot Act created a legal definition of "domestic terrorism," but that particular crime doesn't exist under the current penal code except in a handful of narrow and specific circumstances.
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After 211/11, the U.S. Patriot Act created a legal definition of "domestic terrorism," but that particular crime doesn't exist under the current penal code except in a handful of narrow and specific circumstances.
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Woolfe said there had been no major public announcements on the implementation of the penal code changes aside from a statement on attorney general's website late December which only came to light this week.
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In June, a panel of three judges ruled that sections of the penal code that ban gay sex are unconstitutional as they violate privacy, liberty, and dignity; are discriminatory; and serve no public interest.
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It originated in the offense of lèse-majesté—meaning an insult to the dignity of a reigning sovereign—which was included in the penal code of the German Reich at its foundation in 1871.
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It is Islamic law, or Shariah, the penal code from which law is applied not just in Brunei but in about a dozen other nations as well, such as Saudi Arabia, Iran and Sudan.
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"The 14 people are accused of violating the penal code by sharing the video — usually via Facebook Messenger or other social networks," Michael Kjeldgaard, the police chief of East Jutland, said in a statement.
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The tiny monarchy on the island of Borneo in Southeast Asia based its new penal code on Shariah, Islamic law based on the Quran and other writings, though interpretations of Shariah can vary widely.
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But Nader Nadery, a senior adviser to President Ashraf Ghani, said on Saturday that the government had tried to show the court that it had made reforms to its judicial system and penal code.
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Myanmar lags behind many of its Asian neighbors on the issue, human rights groups say, citing a penal code that does not recognize marital rape and the country's lack of a domestic violence law.
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Ms. Harris recruited her to work in the district attorney's office, instructed her to lose the Pumas and track pants, bought her a suit and told her she needed to understand the penal code.
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Section 164 of the country's penal code banned "unnatural" acts that it defined as "carnal knowledge against the order of nature," and it made such offenses punishable by up to seven years in prison.
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"Brunei must immediately halt its plans to implement these vicious punishments, and revise its Penal Code in compliance with its human rights obligations," Rachel Chhoa-Howard, Brunei researcher at Amnesty International, said in a statement.
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A new penal code which is supposed to come into force next year could be a big step forward: it introduces criminal penalties for wildlife offences which until now have been punishable only with fines.
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None of these legal decisions was taken by the conservative government of Mariano Rajoy's People's Party; they mostly show the impact of a new penal code, and the zeal of independent and deeply conservative judges.
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Activists were particularly concerned by the removal of the promised threshold increase, and the proposal to reclassify illegal weed possession as an offense in the federal penal code rather than a violation of health legislation.
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In 2014, citing Shariah law, the sultan put in place a penal code in his country with punishments that included public flogging, amputation and death by stoning for offenses such as adultery, abortion and homosexuality.
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In the 1,400 page charge sheet, the Delhi Police has also charged Pachauri with stalking, 'outraging the modesty of a woman', and criminal intimidation of the complainant, under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code.
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Fernando Grande-Marlaska told reporters there were clashes taking place around Barcelona's police headquarters late Friday involving around 400 people in "organised groups" who faced "up to six years in prison under Spain's penal code".
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The government of Brunei introduced revisions to its penal code on Wednesday which stipulates the death penalty for rape, adultery, sodomy, extramarital sexual relations for Muslims, robbery, and insult or defamation of the Prophet Muhammad.
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The politically charged re-interpretation of Brazil's penal code could lead to the release of dozens of high-profile convicts, including former leftist president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, jailed last year for taking bribes.
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He said there were other laws, like the penal code, that regulated potential violations by the protesters and that in its current form the bill gave the authorities latitude to crack down on peaceful demonstrators.
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In 1962 it produced the Model Penal Code, a comprehensive system of laws that was meant to reflect the view of the nation's best legal thinking on what an ideal criminal code should look like.
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India's top court is set to rule on whether to legalize consensual gay sex by overturning a law introduced by British colonial rulers in the 1860s, who made it part of the Indian Penal Code.
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Last week Bhutan's lower house of parliament voted to decriminalize gay sex but the amendment to the penal code still needs to pass the upper house of the Asian nation's parliament to come into effect.
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Brunei, a tiny monarchy on the island of Borneo in Southeast Asia, based its new penal code on Shariah, Islamic law based on the Quran and other writings, though interpretations of Shariah can vary widely.
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And on June 13, FIFA will vote between a joint United States-Canada-Mexico bid and Morocco to host the 2026 cup — even though Morocco's national penal code punishes same-sex relations with prison terms.
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A government committee in Jordan had recommended that the law, known as Article 308 of the country's penal code, be revoked and the lower house of the Jordanian Parliament voted to do so on Tuesday.
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In the lower house of the Mexican Congress on Tuesday, lawmakers approved a reform to the penal code that would increase the maximum prison sentence for a femicide conviction to 65 years from 60 years.
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President Joko Widodo wrote on Twitter Friday that the bill changing the country's penal code, which was expected to pass on Tuesday, would instead be postponed as several of its 628 articles needed further review.
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"At the very least, the Iraqi prosecutors should have brought additional charges from the Iraqi penal code, such as charges of murder, torture or disappearance, against the defendants, for the purpose of accountability," she said.
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Under the Philippine Penal Code, a woman performing an abortion on herself, or anyone who intentionally causes an abortion with consent of the pregnant woman, is subject to six months to six years in prison.
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What happened, as the website the New Civil Rights Movement reported, is that Michigan lawmakers amended the state's penal code to add new restrictions on animal abusers without removing an outdated, invalidated ban on sodomy.
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If you "offend the senses" of the passersby, you're a public nuisance, which is a misdemeanor under the California penal code carrying a fine up to $0003,000 and/or jail time up to six months.
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Italy's Union of Rationalist Atheists and Agnostics (UAAR) has collected a number of instances, including in the theater and dance worlds, where Article 404 of the Italian penal code has been invoked for insulting Catholicism.
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Starting April 3, the sultanate on the island of Borneo in southeast Asia — which adopted Shariah law in 193, according to CNN — is scheduled to begin fully enforcing the strict penal code it announced in 2014.
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Starting April 3, the sultanate on the island of Borneo in southeast Asia — which adopted Shariah law in 2014, according to CNN — is scheduled to begin fully enforcing the strict penal code it announced in 2014.
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A military spokesman told Reuters authorities planned to bring further charges under Section 505 of the Penal Code, covering public statements, which carries a maximum sentence of two years in prison and does not permit bail.
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"FGM is clearly a sexual assault against a minor and can be prosecuted under existing sections of the Indian Penal Code and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act," she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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In California, where three women have described instances of C.K. non-consensually masturbating either in front of them or while on the phone with them, this behavior might be deemed criminal under California Penal Code 314.
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" While third-degree assault carries an intent to harm, reckless endangerment occurs when an individual acts irresponsibly, creating what the New York penal code defines as "a substantial risk of serious physical injury to another person.
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UMNO has also been courting hardliners on the religious right, seeking support from the Islamist opposition Parti Islam se-Malaysia (PAS), which advocates a strict Islamic penal code that religious minorities fear could infringe their rights.
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India's Supreme Court has given a ray of hope to India's LGBT community by agreeing to reopen the debate on the controversial Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, a colonial-era law that criminalises homosexuality.
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" Webb County District Attorney District Attorney Isidro Alaniz had said the Texas Penal code allows a lone capital murder count if the defendant carried out multiple murders "pursuant to the same scheme or course of conduct.
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"... The options are clearly stated in the Greek penal code, so therefore it is at Turkey's discretion to take the appropriate legal steps," he added, referring to the possibility of a trial taking place in Athens.
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"A court would likely determine that participation in daily fantasy sports leagues is illegal gambling under section 47.02 of the Penal Code," he said in a letter with his non-binding opinion posted on the site.
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But Jordan's Cabinet moved to scrap that legislative loophole Sunday, endorsing the removal of a penal code article that currently drops all charges against rapists who marry their victim for a statutory minimum of three years.
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The detentions come as President Mauricio Macri has vowed to upend Argentina's culture of impunity in graft cases by reforming the penal code, making government contracting more transparent and carefully tracking the assets of public servants.
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The new penal code in Brunei, a small monarchy on the island of Borneo in Southeast Asia, is based on the most extreme interpretation of Shariah, an Islamic law based on the Quran and other writings.
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Committing an "improper or unnatural act" with a person of the same sex is punishable by one to five years in prison and a fine of up to 1,500,13 CFA francs ($2,715) under Senegal's penal code.
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It comes at a vulnerable moment in his presidency, when his popularity ratings are plummeting and his government is struggling to get signature proposals — overhauls of the penal code and the social security system — through Congress.
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In 2016, through Bill 813, the state amended the penal code so that some sex crimes, including rape, forcible sodomy, and molestation of a child can be prosecuted, regardless of how long ago the crime occurred.
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It imposed a life term for almost any crime if the defendant had two previous convictions for crimes defined as serious or violent by the California Penal Code, according to the Stanford Law School's Three Strikes Project.
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Four states in total -- Fiji, Madagascar, Republic of Congo and Suriname -- abolished the death penalty for all crimes in 2015, and a new penal code in Mongolia means it will also join the abolitionist ranks in 2016.
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The sultan of Brunei responded to critics of the harsh Islamic penal code he recently promulgated by suggesting that its most controversial punishment, death by stoning for sex outside marriage, would not in practice be carried out.
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" NEELA GHOSHAL, SENIOR LGBT RIGHTS RESEARCHER, HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH "Kenya's High Court has relegated people in same-sex relationships in Kenya to second-class citizenship, based on the absurd claim that the penal code is not discriminatory.
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As hijras have played a role in Indian society for hundreds of years, campaigners say today's discrimination is rooted in British colonial morality, with a 19th century penal code prohibiting "carnal intercourse against the order of nature".
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He called the measure necessary because the penal code is based on proving that an individual is not just talking or thinking about committing an act of terrorism, but has taken steps toward carrying out the act.
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To name just a few examples, a 85033 anti-protest law significantly curtails Egyptians' ability to participate in peaceful public meetings and assembly, while a recent amendment to Egypt's penal code criminalizes organizations that receive foreign funding.
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In a formal opinion posted overnight, the U.N. panel of five independent experts said that provisions of Bahrain's penal code were "so vague and overly broad" that people were punished for merely exercising their rights under international law.
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The National Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (NGLHRC) is one of the groups that petitioned the court to repeal sections of a colonial era Penal Code, which it says violate constitutional rights to equality, dignity and privacy.
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Although India's Supreme Court is due to review section 377 of its penal code as it affects LGBT people, the prince acknowledges that whatever the legal result, entrenched social prejudice in small towns may be harder to change.
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Ministers in Chancellor Angela Merkel's cabinet agreed to scrap the relevant passage in the penal code, which was all but forgotten until Jan Boehmermann went on television to declaim the verses linking Erdogan to bestiality and child pornography.
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ASEAN SOGIE Caucus, a Manila-based human rights group, voiced concerns that the new penal code had already "sent a chilling effect to LGBTIQ persons as it made them vulnerable to harassment, intimidation and surveillance by law enforcers".
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A Lebanese district court of appeal ruled in July that same-sex relationships were not illegal, challenging Article 534 of the penal code which outlaws "sexual intercourse contrary to nature," punishable by up to one year in jail.
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Umar Draz, from the eastern Pakistani district of Okara in Punjab, was charged under the Pakistan Penal Code, which is reserved for crimes considered contravening Pakistan's sovereignty and carrying a sentence of up to 10 years in prison.
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In New York, where abortion laws are actually still part of the penal code, rather than the health code, doctors who provide abortions after 24 weeks other than to save a woman's life could be prosecuted as criminals.
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He was charged last year with violating public morality provisions in the penal code for explicit references to sex and drug use in a novel, "The Use of Life," and sentenced in February to two years in prison.
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On the domestic level, the United States has incorporated a number of international crimes into the federal penal code, ensuring that prosecutors have the legal authority they need to address crimes within the jurisdictional reach of our courts.
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The five-year gap between the publication of the article and Keng's complaint is an important issue in the trial, because there is usually only a one-year prescriptive period for ordinary libel in the Philippines' penal code.
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Only a few months earlier, in September 2018, homosexuality was at long last decriminalized in India with the overturning of Section 377 of the penal code which had previously forbidden sexual activity between people of the same gender.
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It would also move New York's abortion regulations from the penal code to the health code, recognizing abortion as a public health issue rather than a crime from which the state had carved out exclusions, Ms. Miller said.
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"Brunei's new penal code is barbaric to the core, imposing archaic punishments for acts that shouldn't even be crimes," Phil Robertson, the deputy Asia director of Human Rights Watch, a nongovernmental organization, said in a statement on Wednesday.
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" Rachel Chhoa-Howard, a Brunei researcher at Amnesty International, said in a statement that the country "must immediately halt its plans to implement these vicious punishments, and revise its penal code in compliance with its human rights obligations.
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The bill said it aims to help poor or indigenous Mexicans who have had limited recourse to legal services, and noted that they, women and young people have been particularly vulnerable to the application of Mexico's penal code.
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One trend the committee noted was the more common use of the penal code in trying free speech cases instead of the more lenient publishing code, which has had no provision for imprisonment since a reform in 2016.
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Some conservatives among them may want voluntary Shariah courts to arbitrate on issues like marriage, divorce and inheritance, but even that modest demand should not be confused with making Shariah's harsh penal code the law of the land.
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First, let's get the myths and rumors out of the way: The legend of the California penal code Some claim the number is drawn from the California criminal codes used to punish the use or distribution of marijuana.
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A Lebanese district court of appeal ruled in July that same-sex relationships were not illegal, challenging Article 534 of the penal code which outlaws "sexual intercourse contrary to nature", punishable by up to one year in jail.
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The trio are facing charges under Section 505 (b) of the country's colonial-era penal code, which prohibits publishing information that may "cause fear or alarm", that could cause someone to commit an offense, or disrupt "public tranquility".
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Turkey's constitutional court last month ruled in favor of removing a provision in the penal code which identifies all sexual acts against children under the age of 15 as "sexual abuse" following an application made by a local court.
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Under section 377(A) of the country's penal code—introduced in the 1930s by British colonial administrators—a man convicted of committing "any act of gross indecency" (ie, sex) with another man is liable to two years in prison.
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The count under Section 311 of the Pakistan's Penal Code makes the state an applicant against Waseem Baloch, meaning that he cannot be pardoned even if the victim's relatives -- in this case, his parents as well -- forgive the killer.
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Her comments were in reference to a decision by Turkey's constitutional court annulling a penal code provision punishing all sexual acts involving children under the age of 15 as "sexual abuse" and asking parliament to draw up new legislation.
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KUALA LUMPUR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Brunei must rowback on plans to implement changes to its penal code next month that could see LGBT+ people whipped or stoned to death for same-sex activity, human rights groups said on Monday.
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The court ruled that Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, which had been introduced by British colonizers in the 1860s to prohibit sexual acts considered "against the order of nature," could no longer be applied to gay sex.
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Abortion law in New York is inscribed in the penal code, making it a matter of criminality rather than a matter of public health, which it turn leaves doctors fearful of conducting the procedure late in a woman's pregnancy.
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Swami Chinmayanand, who previously served as India's minister of state for internal affairs, has been charged under a section of the Indian penal code that covers sex crimes by a person in authority, his lawyer, Pooja Singh, told Reuters.
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Chad Chad introduced a new penal code in 2017 with light prison sentences and fines for same-sex relations which had not been explicitly criminalized before, although there was a law condemning "acts against nature", according to the ILGA.
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The new penal code had been expected to pass into law as early as this week, but on Friday, Indonesian President Joko Widodo announced he would postpone a vote on the code after outcry from human rights groups worldwide.
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Since Brunei's new Shariah penal code was announced, several A-list celebrities including George Clooney, Elton John and Ellen DeGeneres have started a protest campaign, leading a boycott on luxury hotels around the world owned by the Brunei government.
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Five judges on India's Supreme Court are hearing a challenge to a law that criminalizes homosexual sex — Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, introduced by British colonial authorities in 1861 and kept on the books in independent India.
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"It is long overdue for Iranian parliamentarians to put an end to this harrowing situation by amending the penal code to ban the use of the death penalty against anyone who was under 18 at the time of the offense."
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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Prime Minister Najib Razak's government threw its support in parliament this week behind an Islamic penal code that includes amputations and stoning, shocking some of his allies and stoking fears of further strains in the multi-ethnic country.
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According to California law Penal Code 647(j)(4), Kardashian's act may well have constituted revenge porn: Intentionally distributing an image of the intimate body part of another identifiable person, knowing that said distribution would cause that person serious emotional distress.
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Peru modified its penal code last year to make illegal logging on indigenous lands an aggravated offense punishable by a term of at least eight to 10 years in prison - allowing the government to dedicate more resources to fighting it.
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They urged a select commission of lawmakers charged with creating a recommended list of penal code changes to suggest loosening Honduras' abortion ban to allow women to seek abortions in cases of rape, incest, and unviable pregnancies, or for health reasons.
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The ruling against Yildiz, a copy of which was seen by Reuters, said she would be deprived of legal guardianship of her children, invoking an article in Turkey's penal code which allows courts to strip jailed individuals of such rights.
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The nitty-gritty details can be found in California Penal Code 647 (j)(4)(A), but essentially it's illegal for a person to distribute nude photos of another person only if the two have agreed that the photos would remain private.
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Socialist Justice Minister Jean-Jacques Urvoas said he supported the intent of the amendment but raised questions about its legal basis, saying that increasing penalties only for terrorism-related crimes would create inconsistencies in the French penal code, Le Monde reports.
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A growing list of officials, celebrities and human rights groups have criticized the billionaire Sultan of Brunei after the government introduced a draconian penal code that includes death by stoning for gay sex, amputation for theft and public flogging for abortion.
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A parliamentary panel in Bahrain recently agreed to remove a similar article from the country's penal code, but Algeria, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Libya, Palestine, Syria, and Tunisia all still offered similar loopholes as of December 2016, according to Human Rights Watch.
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Woodson argues that it is, citing a section of the Texas penal code that says that consent cannot be granted if a member of the clergy is abusing his or her spiritual power to sleep with a member of the congregation.
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" Aziza Salman, a representative of the government of Bahrain, said in an email that the charges against Mr. Rajab "relate to specific articles of Bahrain's penal code and did not, in any way, relate to any political views he may hold.
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The foreign minister of Brunei has defended his country's new penal code — which made adultery and gay sex punishable by death from stoning, and allows for the amputation of limbs for theft — saying the laws are meant as a deterrent.
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José Paulo Leão Veloso, a lawyer who will represent the northeastern state of Sergipe before the court and argue against decriminalizing abortion, said that the penal code was the prerogative of the legislature and that the current law should stand.
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Child sexual abuse is a crime according to the Pakistan Penal Code -- which was amended in 2016, following the last pedophilia scandal, to include child pornography and sexual assault (other than rape), and made punishable by seven years in prison.
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So zealous were pro-abortion politicians to deregulate the procedure that New York's Reproductive Health Act also stripped from the penal code consequences for causing a forced abortion, or an abortion that is forcibly conducted outside of the traditional medical means.
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But he was released without bail in early March, and accused only of violating a section of Myanmar's 19th-century penal code on "cheating" that is sometimes applied to unfaithful partners and carries a maximum jail term of one year.
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Rights groups Amnesty International "Pending provisions in Brunei's Penal Code would allow stoning and amputation as punishments -- including for children, to name only their most heinous aspects," Rachel Chhoa-Howard, Brunei researcher at Amnesty International, wrote in a statement this week.
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Mr. Moro also appears to have shared an investigative lead relevant to the case against Mr. da Silva in 2015, possibly violating a penal code provision that bars judges from giving advice to one of the parties in a case.
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One primary grievance was the "dowry law"—formally, Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code—which was created in 1983 to protect women from harassment, abuse, and violence in cases where a bride's family did not provide a sufficient dowry.
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"President Roch Marc Christian Kabore and the Constitutional Council should reject changes to Burkina Faso's penal code that criminalize disseminating information and reporting on security concerns," said Angela Quintal, Africa program coordinator for New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).
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But for the past two years, Honduran lawmakers have been completely overhauling the country's penal code for the first time in more than three decades, explained Elida Caballero Cabrera, advocacy adviser for Latin America and the Caribbean for the Center for Reproductive Rights.
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LGBTQI campaigners in the country have been fighting to have the law struck out but have faced a long wait after several postponements by the courts since the case was first brought in 2016 to repeal sections of the Kenyan penal code.
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"He was found guilty under Section 296 of the Penal Code and sentenced to three months in prison," the lawyer said, adding that a fine of about $80 was also paid on Haytema's behalf for breaching Myanmar's rules on respecting its culture.
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It looked overwhelming but orderly on paper: On one side were his plans for restructuring the Ministry of Justice itself; on the other side were his plans for broader changes to bring the Sudanese penal code in line with human rights protections.
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Angola's parliament adopted a new penal code on January 23 for the first time since it gained independence from Portugal in 1975, paving the way for lawmakers to remove the provision characterizing same-sex relationships as "vices against nature," the rights agency said.
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It would also extend Mexico's penal code to crimes committed outside the country if the wrong-doing causes harm in Mexico or to Mexicans, such as a shooting last August in El Paso, Texas, that took the lives of eight Mexican nationals.
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But the house has its own bill going through committee debates that is more likely to make the statute books because it seeks the same outcome by changing the penal code instead of amending the constitution and needs fewer votes to get approved.
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House Bill 896, introduced in the Texas House Judiciary and Civil Jurisprudence Committee, would remove the exception in the penal code for criminal homicide that applies to women and medical professionals and allow them to be charged with murder of an unborn child.
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In California, revenge porn is defined under the Penal Code 647(j)(4) and is essentially the act of sharing an intimate picture or video of a person — that the people involved had previously agreed was private — for the express purpose of causing distress.
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Related: Gambian President Says He Will Slit Gay Men's Throats in Public Speech The case brought by NGLHRC revolves around a challenge to Section 162 of Kenya's penal code — a piece of legislation introduced in the 19th century during British colonial rule in East Africa.
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Ahead of the annual party meeting, Najib said it was the responsibility of Muslims to support a plan by the rival Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party to push for the adoption of hudud, the Islamic penal code, that sets out punishments such as amputation and stoning.
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Last month, UMNO convinced parliament to allow members to debate a bill submitted by the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS) - which has stayed outside the anti-Najib alliance - for the introduction of hudud, the Islamic penal code that sets punishments like amputation and stoning.
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"It's important that women dress modestly and behave sensibly for their own safety," Mandalay District Police Commander Lieutenant Colonel Sein Tun told me, adding that women wearing revealing clothing could be arrested under Section 294 of the Penal Code, which prohibits 'obscene' acts and songs.
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The government is prosecuting 739 people for participation in the protests Before the verdict can be finalized and death sentences carried out, Egypt's penal code requires the Grand Mufti, the country's leading Islamic authority, to issue a religious opinion on the matter, according to Ahram.
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The rules are different in civil cases, where it's almost impossible to run down the clock – and politicians opposed to reforming the penal code point to the endless proceedings in the civil courts as an argument for maintaining current time limits on criminal cases.
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In addition to Mr. Ong's constitutional challenge, more than 50,000 people, including a former attorney general and several former diplomats, signed a petition urging the government to reconsider Section 377A as part of a major penal code review, its first in more than a decade.
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Weinstein is facing time for rape in the third degree, which is described by New York state penal code as having "sexual intercourse with another person who is incapable of consent," and is technically the least weighty degree of rape one can be convicted of.
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JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian President Joko Widodo's decision to delay a planned vote in parliament on a new penal code that would criminalize sex outside marriage and gay sex was met by relief from some but sparked criticism from conservative Muslims who back the new bill.
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Indonesia's Minister of Law and Human Rights Yasonna Laoly, who reintroduced the bill in 2015, told CNN that the law replaces the 100-year-old Dutch colonial-era penal code and would make Indonesia's criminal law more in line with how Indonesians live today.
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