Through the Criminal Law Amendment Ordinance 2023, the President amended the Section 462 (O) of the Pakistan Penal Code, 1860. According to a President House statement, the electricity distribution ...

KUWAIT CITY, May 4: A new legislative amendment has been enacted through Decree-Law No. (64) of 2025, revising Article 91 of the Penal Code originally issued under Law No. 16 of 1960. According to ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code, which criminalises cruelty towards women by their husbands or in-laws, does not violate the right to equality ...

Sen. Carol Alvarado (D-Houston) authored Senate Bill 482, which would increase the penalty for assaulting a utility worker to ...

Today, they disproportionately target informal workers, sex workers and homeless populations. Section 377 of the British Penal Code criminalised “unnatural acts” and laid the foundation for ...

The Hippie Pope after his Good Friday visit to Rome’s Regina Coeli jail + In Kafka’s “The Penal Colony,” a man called only the Traveler visits an island penal colony of a country not his own.

A former ballerina who spent more than a year in a Russian jail for donating £40 to a charity supporting Ukraine has returned home to the US after being freed in a prisoner exchange. Ksenia ...

Amendments to Singapore’s Penal Code have led to the introduction of specific punishable offences to better protect minors amid evolving threats. The changes kicked in on Jan 1, 2020 ...

Elections Canada wants you to know your ballot will count whether you mark it with a pen or with a pencil. The independent agency says it’s seeing posts on social media claiming voters have to ...

Four journalists linked to the late Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny were sentenced to spend five years and six months in a penal colony on Tuesday, after they were accused of working for ...