JAKARTA – Indonesia’s new criminal code, which will make crimes of premarital sex and insulting the state when it takes effect on Jan 2, will need public oversight to help prevent abuse of the law, a ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto has authorized the revision of the Criminal Procedure Code (KUHAP) to become Law No. 20 of 2025. The inauguration took place on December 17, ...

The federal government is making changes to Canada’s Criminal Code to treat killings driven by control, hate, sexual violence or exploitation as first-degree murder, Justice Minister Sean Fraser said ...

Deputy Coordinating Minister for Legal, Human Rights, Immigration, and Corrections Otto Hasibuan opened the Internalization of Legal Development Index Oversight and Implementation of Law No. 1 of 2023 ...

It's been more than 48 years since Guam's criminal code was last updated, and Public Law 36-119, passed in 2023 and sponsored by then-Senator, now Speaker Frank Blas Jr., created the Guam Criminal Law ...

Laws are not static. They serve as the framework Indonesian society builds around liberty, determining who wakes to the light of day and who vanishes into the machinery of the state. Indonesia’s 2025 ...

Italy’s parliament has formally added the crime of femicide – the deliberate killing of women and girls due to their gender – to its criminal code, with a punishment of life imprisonment. The bill was ...

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The Centre for Criminal Justice and Human Rights (CCJHR), National Law University Odisha (NLUO) will be organizing the 1st CCJHR National Essay Writing Competition themed 'The Bharatiya Nagarika ...

JAKARTA – Indonesian lawmakers have passed a sweeping revision to the Criminal Procedure Code, which they said would modernise an outdated justice system by speeding up prosecutions and aligning legal ...