Mahbooba Faiz, an Afghan-born lawyer based in Ireland, uncovers the detail of the Taliban’s new diktat on criminal procedure. After nearly four years of legislative opacity and rule by decree, on 4 ...

In January 2026, the Taliban implemented a new Criminal Procedure Code that serves less as a judicial framework and more as a mechanism for total ideological and social control. Signed by Mullah ...

The Taliban has formally entrenched a class-based justice system in Afghanistan under a newly enacted Criminal Procedure Code signed by its supreme leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada, a move that has ...

At first glance, the criminal code appears to be a typical legal framework. But the state’s goal is not to protect citizens, but to control them. But for Afghans, the war did not end; it only changed.

North Carolina leaders last year approved new rules for handling criminal suspects who may need psychiatric care — prompting a dispute between hospitals and law enforcement groups over a new ...

On December 17, 2025, the President of Indonesia signed the criminal procedure bill into Law No. 20 of 2025 (the “New KUHAP”), following its parliamentary approval in November 2025. The New KUHAP ...

Indonesia on Friday marked the end of colonial-era laws of over a century with new criminal procedures. Coordinating Minister for Legal, Human Rights, Immigration, and Corrections Yusril Ihza Mahendra ...

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 ...

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, ...

Anthony Herbert, of Woodbridge Crescent, Shelfield in Walsall, appeared by video link from HMP Birmingham at Wolverhampton Crown Court this week and was determined to be a legal eagle despite being ...

Santo Domingo.- President Luis Abinader enacted Law 97-25 on Sunday, officially reforming the Criminal Procedure Code after its approval by the Senate. According to Antoliano Peralta Romero, legal ...