To keep up with the times, representatives from institutions in the justice sector are set to form a committee that will review the Revised Penal Code, the country's general criminal code. In a ...

THE CABINET has approved a revised draft Penal Code submitted by Justice Minister Daniel Lipšic, according to the daily SME. The minister had to withdraw the bill from parliament last month because, ...

Mon, March 4, 2019 Published on Mar. 4, 2019 Published on 2019-03-04T10:05:37+07:00 he draft of the revised Criminal Code (KUHP) remains unfinished nearing the end of the 2014-2019 legislative term.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Friday said that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with a non-government organization based in Germany which seeks to modernize the Revised Penal ...

MANILA, Philippines — Should extrajudicial killings be defined and criminalized through a separate bill or integrated into the Revised Penal Code? The Commission of Human Rights (CHR) and rights ...

Coordinating Security Minister Mahfud MD gives a press conference after a meeting with the Regional Representatives Council (DPD RI) Speaker at Nusantara III Building, Parliament Complex, Jakarta, ...

Activists hold up posters during a rally against Indonesia’s new criminal law in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2022. Credit: AP Photo/Slamet Riyadi The United Nations has expressed its ...

The Diet has passed a revision to the penal code to integrate two categories of confinement--“choeki” and “kinko”--into one called “kokin.” The revision has scrapped the traditional classification ...

MANILA, Philippines — Vice President Sara Duterte’s remark about exhuming and throwing the body of late dictator Ferdinand Marcos Sr. into the West Philippine Sea is a violation of the Revised Penal ...

Lawmakers vote on the revised Penal Code during a plenary session of the House of Councillors on June 13, 2022. (Mainichi/Kan Takeuchi) TOKYO -- Japan's Diet passed revisions to the Penal Code on June ...