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Of course, disrespect for the national flag is derided in most countries, and has been a criminal offense in India since 1971, with the adoption of the Prevention of Insults to National Honor Act, which threatens whoever “mutilates, defaces, disfigures, destroys, tramples upon, or otherwise shows disrespect to” the Indian flag with imprisonment.
And, left on their own, these women lack the knowledge and resources to navigate the criminal justice system.
To the Tajik and Kyrgyz criminal justice system, they were the lowest-hanging fruit in the newly launched war on drugs.
Part of the effort to reform drug policy must address the systemic faults in criminal justice, health care, and welfare that exacerbate the plight of women caught in the crossfire of the war of drugs.
And, because Governing Council and Executive Board members enjoy immunity from criminal prosecution, misbehavior cannot be punished.
Support from UNMIL and other international partners enabled the Liberian government to establish several specialized criminal justice agencies, including the Women and Children Protection Section of the Liberian National Police (LNP) and a court dedicated to prosecuting sex crimes.
The government should begin by establishing specialized criminal justice agencies in the areas where they do not currently exist.
The key to building more successful criminal justice institutions is local ownership.
The worry is that Russia will unilaterally recognize the breakaway Moldovan territory of Transdnistria, which Russian troops and criminal gangs have been propping up for 16 years.
The outpouring of emotion evident at Shahbag was provoked by a decision of an international criminal tribunal convened by the government.
The Tigers’ leaders have committed crimes against humanity, and some of them engage in criminal activities.
Because Abe is the nationalist grandson of a former prime minister who was once arrested as a war criminal, and because he has paid public tribute to soldiers who died for the emperor in World War II, these protests might seem reasonable.
While it is possible to do this for diseases where the diagnosis is relatively unambiguous and there is only a single abnormal gene associated with the condition (Huntington’s disease is a good example), this is a far cry from saying that a specific gene causes you to be criminal or alcoholic.
So, did he have genes for criminal aggression, or is he a good soldier?
In fact, across much of Europe, especially in the former Soviet Union and the Balkans, the media is largely controlled by political, business, or criminal interests, which manipulate it for partisan purposes and allow corruption to thrive.
The threats to media freedom in Europe are all too apparent: intimidation, attacks, and murder; legal harassment and wrongful imprisonment; and official controls, criminal libel laws, and intolerable political and commercial pressure on journalists.
Unlike in other countries, where guerrillas pursued exclusively political demands, Colombia’s guerilla groups became involved in drug trafficking, which transformed them into lethal institutional monsters, one part subversive organization and one part criminal mafia.
Any banker who reveals details of his clients’ affairs to unauthorized third parties is committing a criminal offense in Switzerland.
It poses, for example, no obstacle whatsoever to a criminal investigation.
So, despite some foreign media reports, tax evasion is not legal in Switzerland; it merely is not a criminal offence.
Tax fraud is a criminal offense in Switzerland.
The international implication is that Switzerland has traditionally offered international assistance in criminal tax cases that have elements of fraud, but not of evasion.
But, sadly, the treaty will only entrench postcommunism's corrupt and criminal business practices, not increase trade or prosperity.
The police finally stepped in and, after a careful investigation, announced that they had found the true criminal: Yang Yongming, a private businessman whom the local lottery administration had contracted to organize ticket sales.
Whatever happened between the former managing director of the International Monetary Fund and his accuser, the fact that he was arrested and paraded in front of the press as a criminal suspect has been much criticized in France.
We lack the climate for a truly democratic arena, where criminal behavior that the state previously supported is prosecuted.
Today, China is the only country in the world that has enshrined in law the concept of a “Web political criminal.”
Since the first Chinese Web criminal, Lin Haiyin, was imprisoned for instigating subversive actions in 2000 to the recent arrest of writer Shi Tao, more than 100 independent intellectuals have been imprisoned for expressing their views.
And in the name of human rights, it is time for the truth to come out about the people who went missing after the conflict, and about why, for a decade, UN officials ignored appeals by the victims’ families and launched no criminal investigation.
UN missing-persons researchers – not criminal investigators – searched for them for years and found no trace of them in Kosovo.
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