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PS parliamentary leader, Eurico Brilhante Dias, announced that the PS would once again request a review of this decree amending the Penal Code.
The vice-president of the Socialist parliamentary group stated that regarding the nationality law, “the issues of unconstitutionality have been resolved.”
PSD and CDS-PP maintain the proposal to amend the Penal Code to create the accessory penalty of loss of nationality, but they reduce the list of crimes and increase the level of the effective sentence that can justify this sanction. According to the amendment proposals from the two parties to the decree from the Assembly rejected by the Constitutional Court...
The Joint Action Group Against Racism and Xenophobia denounced the discriminatory attacks and launched a petition to amend the Penal Code, which has already gathered more than 26,000 signatures.
A community of 81 collectives has launched a petition to the Assembly of the Republic to amend the Penal Code. Agate de Sousa, Isaac Nader, and Gerson Baldé were insulted on social media.
In Europe, defamation is a crime in many member states, although prison sentences are rarely applied. However, the European trend is to decriminalise, restrict, or even abolish the criminal route. Opinion by Francisco Rui Cádima.
The former prime minister stressed that the PSD's proposal to amend the Penal Code aims to “strengthen the powers of the judiciary and reduce the rights of individuals.”
The initiative demands that rape be classified as a public crime and that femicide be established as a separate offence in the Penal Code. The PAN party already attempted this—and failed—two weeks ago.
Signatories highlight the urgency of amending the Penal Code to transform rape into a public crime and apply harsher penalties to offenders.
