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The Ethiopian Criminal Code is the criminal code of Ethiopia. Stemmed from the 1957 Penal Code of the Ethiopian Empire, the FDRE regime repealed both the Ethiopian Empire and the Derg revised Proclamation in 1982 from 9 May 2005 and has 865 Articles. Furthermore, the Code obligated to ensure order, peace and security of the country, its people ...
In January 2020, the EHRC gave advice to the HoPR on a draft revision of the Ethiopian Criminal Procedure Code and Evidence Law. Motivations for the revision of the 1961 code included taking into account the federal Ethiopian system and regional and international treaties.
The criminal jurisdiction of the Federal High Court alongside First Instance Court [4] have the following duties and obligations under Federal Courts Proclamation No. 25/1996, which went into effect on 1 December 1998. [5] [6] 1. Under specified cases in criminal code article 4, 5 6 and 7 of Article 4 hereof: 2.
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Since the new constitution of Ethiopia enacted in 1995, Ethiopia's legal system consisted of federal law with bicameral legislature. [1] The House of People's Representatives (HoPR) is the lower chamber of bicameral legislature of Federal Parliamentary Assembly with 547 seats and the House of Federation with 108 seats, the former vested on executive power of Prime Minister and the Council of ...
Ethiopia has dual judicial system with two equivalent court structures; the federal courts and state courts with independent structures and administration. [1] The FDRE constitution vested federal judicial authority to the Federal Supreme Court and guarantees liability for the House of People's Representatives (HPR) to determine two-third majority vote for establishment subordinate federal ...
Since 2019, Ethiopia has not formally shown to abolish capital punishment or ratify the Second Optional Protocol. In 2011 Concluding Observations, the Human Rights Committee expressed concern that Ethiopia authorizes the death penalty for "crimes which appear to have a political dimension", [ 13 ] as well as to the most serious crimes and in ...
Crime patterns had been radically changed in Ethiopia due to social and political contributions. Prior to 1974 revolution, the feudal and monarchical system of the Ethiopian Empire, there were poor management in the surveillance of crime. Police statistics indicated that crime increased up to 1973–1974, hence they gradually began to decline.