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11) making a criminal offence under the newly introduced art. 612 bis of the penal code, punishable with imprisonment ranging from six months up to five years, any "continuative harassing, threatening or persecuting behaviour which: (1) causes a state of anxiety and fear in the victim(s), or; (2) ingenerates within the victim(s) a motivated ...
Criminal penalty Life imprisonment without parole Robert John Bardo (born January 2, 1970) is an American man serving life imprisonment without parole after being convicted for the July 18, 1989, murder of American actress and model Rebecca Schaeffer , whom he had stalked for three years.
In parliamentary procedure in the United States, a motion to postpone to a certain time (or postpone definitely or postpone) is used to delay action on a pending question until a different day, meeting, hour or until after a certain event.
Article 522 of Lebanese Penal code allowed men, who had been convicted of sexual assault, abduction, or statutory rape against a woman, [15] to avoid penalty of no less than five years of hard labor if a valid contract of marriage could be provided. Article 522 was officially admitted to the Lebanese Penal Code in February 1948.
Croatia criminally prohibits trafficking for forced labor and commercial sexual exploitation through Criminal Provision 175 of its penal code. Provision 175 prescribes penalties for all forms of trafficking of one to 10 years’ imprisonment; these penalties are sufficiently stringent and are commensurate with those prescribed for rape. In 2009 ...
an old punishment, defined in the penal code of 1791 and retained in the Code des délits et des peines (Code of Offences and Penalties). flagellation whipping, or flagellation; a type of corporal punishment under the Ancien régime. [138] See § peine afflictive et infamante. flagrant délit
The Finnish penal code employs the terms race and racialv, but in 2000, the term origin (alkuperän) was established as the preferred term in the Constitution. [ N 13 ] In Sweden , the term race was removed from the text of the Non-Discrimination Act ( Diskrimineringslagen ) in 2008, and the term "ethnicity" was introduced in its place.
Major developments included laws passed around the time of the French Revolution in 1791 and 1801, [6] the 1808 code of French criminal procedure (Code d'instruction criminelle), [7] [8] and two years later, the Penal code of 1810. [9] The 1897 law on Criminal defense followed. [5]