Accurate scrutiny should begin with precision about what the law actually says, how it functions legally, and where interpretation begins to exceed text. Recent reporting on the Taliban’s January 2026 ...

From Moses to Hammurabi to Solon to Napoleon to Narendra Modi, strong rulers have prided themselves on being law givers to the ruled. The proposed criminal law overhaul with the replacement of the ...

This week, Egypt’s parliament rushed to approve, “in principle,” a government proposed draft bill to replace the country’s 1950 Criminal Procedure Code. The Lawyers’ Syndicate, the Journalists’ ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto has authorized the revision of the Criminal Procedure Code (KUHAP) to become Law No. 20 of 2025. The inauguration took place on December 17, ...

New Delhi, India – Late last month India’s parliament passed two sets of controversial legislation in the biggest overhaul of the criminal justice system and telecom laws that critics say could ...

Indonesia’s long-delayed overhaul of its criminal justice system took effect last week, with the government hailing the “historic” change that would usher in a “more humane” era of law enforcement, ...

(Beirut) – The decision by President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi of Egypt not to sign a flawed Criminal Procedure Code and to send it back to parliament for revision was a positive move, 20 civil society ...

The Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian Parliament) Committee on Law Enforcement has supported amendments to the Code of Criminal Procedure that may make the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) and the ...

Indonesia’s long-awaited new Criminal Code, which has come under fire for its bans on pre-marital sex and insults to the state, comes into effect today. The 345-page Code was approved by parliament in ...