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 ...

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 ...

Lawmakers approved the draft revised Penal Code and the Criminal Procedure Code (amended) during their working session in Hanoi on November 27 - the last day of the tenth session of the 13th National ...

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 ...

The government is now in the final part of a two-phase revision of the 80-year-old Revised Penal Code (RPC), enacted during the American occupation in 1932. The Department of Justice (DOJ) said the ...

An allegation was thrown against me for degrading the reputation of a teenage girl. The matter was brought before the barangay, however, the conciliation failed. When the barangay issued a certificate ...