One of the most discussed initiatives was the extension of sanctions to a quite big number of individuals and legal entities.

These draft laws seek to provide protection to children based upon a higher age threshold, namely 18 years of age, and to punish customers and procurers more severely.

Sanctions

Chastisement!

Sanctions Blowback

The False Promise of Targeted Sanctions

Sentencing

Question of penalties

F. PENALTIES

Specification of sanctions

Apply sanctions?

Advocates of sanctions argue that they are having a crippling effect on the Iranian economy.

The penalties to be imposed

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(b) Collective punishment

It also presented proposals for legislative changes to combat impunity by rendering the legal penalties more adequate and rigorous for those who practice the crime of children exploitation, closing legal loopholes that allow for impunity for the recruiters.

Do Economic Sanctions Work?

Penal Code Act (Cap 135)

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(a) Penal reform

Article 8. Enforcement of sentences

These punishments or prohibitions are actually designed to deter rather than to inflict the actual punishments.

Governments should ensure that appropriate legal sanctions are applied in full to any interests that contravene laws or regulations prohibiting high seas drift net fishing.

And threatening more sanctions in the future raises the question of why those sanctions have not already been imposed.

Increased sanctions for money laundering

Since August, the punishments have gotten harsher.

Article 587 of the Penal Code

Restrictive legal measures range from severe maximum sentences for illicit trafficking to penalties for the possession of illicit drugs for personal use and actual consumption as well.

The State party considers that the danger of imprisonment and other criminal penalties for desertion does not in itself establish a violation of article 3 of the Convention since these are the legal punishments for an ordinary offence in the estimation of most States parties to the Convention.

In addition, sexual harassment had been made a criminal offence under the revised Penal Code, providing women the legal means to pursue the perpetrators of such crimes.

No amendments to the contents of the penal provisions are proposed, nor would the applicable penalties be different.

But Western sanctions have not worked, either.

Legal Advisor and Head of the Criminal Law Section

Cartels Sanctions against Individuals (2004)

Treatment of offenders and penal reform

Implementation of targeted financial sanctions regimes is enhanced.

Member of the Commission for the Reform of the Polish Penal Code

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(4) Hostage taking and collective punishment

And we got carried away with the rhetoric of punishment.

In such a case the Constitution, with other legislation, provides for the same treatment as that accorded any citizen who violates the law, just as any act deemed an offence under the Ecuadorian Penal Code is tried under domestic legislation.

(b) The penalties which apply to each of these offences and the aggravating or attenuating circumstances applicable to them

Economic sanctions alone are dubious against the world s most sanctioned country. And threatening more sanctions in the future raises the question of why those sanctions have not already been imposed.

In April 2003, the Duma voted to toughen the law against inciting religious hatred by adding prison terms of up to five years for offenders.