Arbitrary detentions for petty misdemeanours

8. Abolition of the practice of arbitrary detention for petty misdemeanours

So they tend to excuse their misdemeanors and bad behaviors through something that was beyond their control.

414. Administrative detention, also known as public security detention, was imposed by public security organs for minor offences.

First, this penalty ought to be decided only in the cases of less serious petty offences or misdemeanours, but not crimes.

Criminal judgements rendered by a foreign court for activities categorized as crimes or offences under Syrian law shall be implemented in the following cases

In July, Mahinour's sentence was slashed to six months, and more good news followed today when the Misdemeanors Courth threw out the case altogether.

administrative fines 154. This recommendation is linked to the preceding one, as a temporary means of reducing the high incidence of arbitrary detentions for petty misdemeanours.

153. The Special Representative also recommends that international organizations and other interested donors assist the Government of Cambodia in the establishment of the Juvenile Delinquent Centre for the rehabilitation of juvenile offenders.

He began as a lecturer at the same law faculty in 1984, and has since become a Professor for criminal procedure law, international criminal law and misdemeanour law .

2.7 On 31 January 2000, the Deputy Prosecutor, following his own investigation, filed a motion with the Judicial Council of the Misdemeanours Court, recommending acquittals for all three officers.

In the case under consideration the author neither appointed a process agent in the court's district prior to the Misdemeanours Court's resolution of the case, nor appeared before the Appeals Court to make submissions on the absence of an agent and on the case as a whole.

On 25 May 1990, the examining magistrate referred the author apos s case to the Criminal Court of Coutances (Tribunal correctionnel), which, on 10 July 1990, sentenced the author to seven years apos imprisonment.

58. According to the administering Power, during 1991, 1,188 minor and 3,605 serious crimes were reported, compared to 1,433 and 3,385, respectively, in 1990.

It sets out a comprehensive system to control the movement of firearms, their parts and components and ammunition, which includes provisions that require the criminalization of offences relating to the illicit manufacturing of and trafficking in firearms, their parts and components and ammunition, as well as to the tampering with firearms markings.

Article 14 of the Code states Unless otherwise provided herein, the statute of limitations on criminal proceedings shall be 10 years for serious offences, 3 years for lesser offences and 1 year for infractions.

Article 23 provides Unless otherwise provided herein, lesser offences are offences which are punishable by up to three years' imprisonment and or a fine of up to 1,000 rials.

332. Furthermore, as already indicated in this report, in the period under review developments with regard to the issue of arbitrary detention for petty misdemeanours appear to have begun to lead to action representing a promising start on the implementation of the relevant recommendation.

On 22 May 1998, Officers P, Y and H were indicted by the Prosecutor for joint attempted homicide (articles 42, 83, 94 and 299 of the Criminal Code) and aggravated damage to another's property (articles 381 and 382 of the Code) before the Thessaloniki Misdemeanours Court and a main investigation was ordered.

On 23 February 2000, the Judicial Council of the Misdemeanours Court accepted the motion and acquitted the officers, reasoning that their acts could not be considered ultimately unjust, as their initial unjustness was eliminated by the fact that they had been performed in self defence.

336. The right to liberty continues to be affected by arbitrary detentions for quot petty misdemeanours quot , although the competent authorities, in coordination with ONUSAL, have begun to adopt corrective measures which should mitigate the severity of this problem.

The Appeals Court thus accepted the proposal of the prosecutor to declare the appeal inadmissible for failure to appoint a process agent between the filing of his initial claim on 7 April 1998 and the entry of acquittal by the Misdemeanours Court in 2000.

6.2 The Committee observes that the State party challenges the admissibility of the communication on the basis of the author's failure properly to pursue his appeal against the Thessaloniki Misdemeanours Court's acquittal of the three officers criminally charged, without making any argument relating to the author's institution of a separate civil action in 2003.