First Lady Raquel Arbaje, along with her daughters Graciela, Esther, and Adriana, is among more than 1,000 individuals who ...

The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) has arrested an individual who figured in a viral road rage incident video and ...

The Senate passed the Penal Code that now moves to the Chamber of Deputies for approval. The present legislation closes on 24 July 2025 and reopens on 16 August 2025.

Existing Penal Code provisions were hardly adequate to arrest this trend of continuous increase of incidents of sexual abuse of women and children. Sri Lanka ratified the UN Convention on the Rights ...

The Singapore Parliament voted on Nov 29 to repeal Section 377A of the Penal Code, a colonial-era law which criminalises gay sex between men. Same-sex marriage in Taiwan has been legalised on May ...

Iran’s Islamic Penal Code, which went into effect in 1991, reflects the ruling clerics’ interpretation of Sharia law, based on the Jafari or Twelver Shia school of jurisprudence.

| | VI. The Penal Code In 2003, Libyan authorities announced efforts to amend the country’s penal code, which came into effect in 1953 and had undergone only partial revisions since that time.