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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 two weeks ago because ...

WITH A STRONG majority, Slovak legislators passed a revised Penal Code that toughens sentences for dangerous criminals and decreases the age of criminal responsibility from 15 to 14 years old. Out of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Legal experts have condemned a revised penal code in Vietnam that requires lawyers to report on their clients in cases deemed a threat to national security. The National Assembly passed the revised ...

(New York) – Vietnam should immediately repeal a provision in its revised penal code that would hold lawyers criminally responsible for not reporting clients to the authorities for a number of crimes, ...