The following is a non-comprehensive review of the draft new Criminal Procedure Code (CPC). The review is based on a 95-page document published on a number of pro-government websites in August 2024 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

A number of recent legislative and jurisprudential developments have improved the rights of persons prosecuted under the French guilty plea procedure (Comparution sur reconnaissance préalable de ...

JAKARTA – Indonesian lawmakers have passed a sweeping revision to the Criminal Procedure Code, which they said would modernise an outdated justice system by speeding up prosecutions and aligning legal ...

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, ...

From July 1, 2024, the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (IPC), Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (CrPC) and Indian Evidence Act, 1872 have been replaced by the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (BNS), Bharatiya ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - A number of organizations involved in the Civil Society Coalition for KUHAP Reform are calling for a rejection of the draft Criminal Procedure Code Bill (RUU KUHAP), which is ...

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’ ...