President Duterte has signed the law that increases the outdated amounts in the Revised Penal Code on which fines and penalties are based, thus ensuring more proportional punishment for those who ...

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.

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 ...

President Rodrigo Duterte has signed into law amendments in the Revised Penal Code, which includes imposing stiffer penalties on publishing false news. Duterte signed Republic Act 10951 or “An Act ...

At least 50,000 indigent prisoners convicted of petty crimes may either be released or benefit from reduced sentences once amendments to the Revised Penal Code proposed by Senate President Pro-Tempore ...

Vietnam will delay the release date of its 2025 Penal Code, which was scheduled to replace the 1999 Criminal Code on July 1, due to errors in the drafting process, according to a VnExpress source. No ...

Activists hold up posters during a rally against Indonesia’s new criminal law in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2022. The United Nations has expressed its concern about the threats to basic ...

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, ...

Despite a number of revisions to the Penal Code this summer, which brought in wider boundaries surrounding cases of rape, the new code still does not recognize incidents of sexual assault by a woman ...

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 ...