honest Members of the National Assembly, today, Tuesday, approved the amended and supplementary text of Order No. 66-156 containing the Penal Code, during a public session chaired by the Speaker of the Assembly, Saleh Gogel, in the presence of the Minister of Justice, Keeper of the Seals, Abdel Rashid Tabbi, and the Minister of Relations with Parliament, Basma Azwar.
It was included Text The aforementioned included new measures, including “reviewing provisions related to some criminal cases, strengthening the protection of managers and supporting investment,” in addition to “fighting crimes of forgery and job plagiarism and enhancing the protection of security services.”
The text also included “a review of rulings related to some criminal cases with the aim of relieving pressure on the Criminal Court, including reviewing the life imprisonment sentence and replacing it with a maximum prison sentence of 30 years, similar to some intentional acts of violence and arson that do not cause permanent wounds or disabilities.”
The text proposes provisions that include “criminalizing all acts related to investment, in line with the Investment Law issued in 2022, as anyone who carries out actions or practices aimed at obstructing investment shall be punished with imprisonment from one to three years, and the penalty shall increase from 5 to 7 years if the perpetrator is among those facilitated.” “His job is to commit the crime.”
Regarding strengthening the protection of victims of some crimes, the text proposes “strengthening the penalties for some crimes, especially harassment, assault, and sexual exploitation,” in addition to “strengthening the criminal protection of women by criminalizing the husband or suitor’s infringement on the private life of his wife or fiancée.”
The amendments that were included emphasized the importance of “ensuring the safety of the national societal fabric from the influence of organized criminal groups” by “tightening penalties and classifying new crimes resulting from technological developments,” in addition to “fighting crimes of forgery and job plagiarism.”
By the way, the Legal and Administrative Affairs Committee of the National Assembly, through its supplementary report, appreciated the content of this text, which it considered “an important building block added to the construction of the legal system in its economic, social, and security dimensions.”
This is what he said Minister of Justice About the draft penal code
The Minister of Justice, Keeper of the Seals, Abdul Rashid Tabbi, explained that the draft penal code presented to the National Assembly is comprehensive and aware of all developments.
In his response to the Council members’ discussions of the text of this draft, during a public session chaired by the Speaker of the Council, Mr. Saleh Qojil, the Minister revealed that the text of the law would be legislated for years to come without having to amend it, so that it was comprehensive, complete, and conversant with all global developments and topical issues that concern national public opinion. Such as protecting managers and members of the public force during their confrontation with organized crime and neighborhood gangs, as well as the issue of combating some phenomena alien to Algerian society, such as sorcery and obscene language.
In his response to the Council members’ interventions regarding some of the provisions contained in the law, such as those related to alternative punishments, the Minister indicated that the judge pronounces them in the presence of the convict and requires his approval to replace the custodial punishment with an alternative punishment, highlighting that this type of punishment is a system in place globally and does not Algeria must stay away from new regimes.
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