The Diet has passed a revision to the penal code to integrate two categories of confinement--“choeki” and “kinko”--into one called “kokin.” The revision has scrapped the traditional ...

JAKARTA--Indonesia’s Parliament has passed a long-awaited and controversial revision of its penal code that criminalizes extramarital sex and applies to citizens and visiting foreigners alike.

Indian Minister Pankaj Chaudhary told the Parliament that when it comes to crypto scams and frauds, India’s existing laws like the Indian Penal Code are equipped to handle the fallout.

The hard-left France Unbowed (LFI) proposal aims to axe a provision criminalising acts defending or positively portraying terrorist acts from the country's penal code. The law was part of an 1881 ...