No one may be subjected to torture or degrading treatment.

Mr. BOBOHONOV (Tajikistan) said that forced marriage was punishable by law.

Rape is a crime in Brazil punishable with six to ten years of jail time.

They had not committed any offences or acts which are punishable by law.

This Act makes it an offence punishable with life imprisonment to cause a nuclear weapon test explosion or any other nuclear explosion.

Thus, article 36 of the Constitution stipulates No one may be subjected to torture or degrading treatment. Torture is an offence which is punishable by law.

the person is guilty of an offence punishable on conviction by imprisonment for not more than 8 years.

Hatred, after all, is not a punishable crime.

All the responding retentionist countries stated that the law prohibited the execution of persons who had committed a capital offence when under the age of 18.

the first mentioned person is guilty of an offence punishable on conviction by imprisonment for not more than 8 years

Consequently, the preference must be to treat terrorism as criminal acts to be handled through existing systems of law enforcement and with full respect for human rights and the rule of law.

The Committee recommends that the State party recognize participation in organizations promoting and inciting racial discrimination as a punishable offence.

Bolivia does not have a specific law against terrorism, a social scourge which is a crime punishable under the Criminal Code in force (article 133 on Crimes against public order ).

That indicated a need to link mercenary activity with other crimes under international law.

3. Also stresses the need to treat all forms of violence against women and girls of all ages as a criminal offence punishable by law, including violence based on all forms of discrimination

(b) Declaring illegal and prohibited organizations and organized and all other propaganda activities that promote and incite racial discrimination, and recognizing participation in such organizations or activities as an offence punishable by law

Running away from home is considered a crime in some jurisdictions, but it is usually a status offense punished with probation, or not punished at all.

Not even genocide was punishable by death, the maximum punishment being 10 to 20 years' deprivation of liberty.

Article 208 The penalty for the forgery of personal documents stipulated in article 205 of this Act shall be imposed on any person who

(d) To declare illegal and prohibit organizations and organized and all other propaganda activities that promote and incite racial discrimination and to recognize participation in such organizations or activities as an offence punishable by law

Any banker who reveals details of his clients affairs to unauthorized third parties is committing a criminal offense in Switzerland.

Failure to comply with any such order was an arrestable offence punishable by a fine of up to 1,000 and imprisonment for up to two years.

He cited a recent case in which an individual who was an illegal immigrant and was wanted for a capital crime in his home country had been ordered to be deported by the Mauritian courts.

These include a hateful bill which the House of Representatives has already approved that provides for the construction of a wall along the US Mexican border and makes unauthorized entry into the US a felony.

While all of these practices are punishable by law, they are rarely reported by the victim owing to considerations of a social nature, such as dignity.

The Committee advised the Government to ensure that such violence constitutes a crime punishable under criminal law, that it is prosecuted and punished with the required severity and speed, and that women victims of violence have immediate means of redress and protection.

(b) Mr. Mas'oud Hamid has been arrested for committing an offence which is punishable by law, i.e. being a member of a proscribed Kurdish party called Yakiti for disseminating inflammatory propaganda and for publishing articles, under a pseudonym, in an unauthorized magazine called DEM.

Using the Internet for long distance calling is illegal, punishable by jail or fine according to the article 72 of the telecommunications law issued in 2003.

In a direct request of 2004, the Committee noted with interest that section 19 of the Act on Violence against Women and the Family establishes sexual harassment as an offence punishable by imprisonment.

Articles 21, 118 and 119 of the Third Geneva Convention permit the internment of POWs until their repatriation at the cessation of active hostilities or the completion of any criminal proceedings or punishment for an indictable offence that may be pending against a POW.

The State party finds it highly improbable that a person wanted by the police for a capital offence could have a new passport issued and take off from Karachi airport without incident.

The widespread or systematic practice of enforced disappearance constitutes a crime against humanity and shall attract the consequences provided for under international law.

Failure by any person, employer or authority of rank having knowledge of an occurrence of this kind to take remedial action or prevent any recurrence, is an offence punishable by a fine.

Yet those who admire his courage in struggling for freedom of expression ought to see to it that efforts to make blasphemy a crime, or to perpetuate it as a criminal offense, are afforded no legitimacy whatsoever.

According to the reform of the Penal Code which the Justice minister, Alberto Ruiz Gallardón, is planning, those who facilitate the entry of undocumented migrants, and shelter, assist or lodge them, will commit a punishable crime and will be able to be punished with two years of prison.

The Petromelidis case referred to involved a conscript who had claimed conscientious objector status in 1992 when it did not exist under the law and had thus been convicted of insubordination, a crime under the Penal Code, and given a four year suspended prison sentence.

The term serious crime corresponds to the terms grave crime and especially grave crime in the Ukrainian criminal law.

This means that if a person is punished for a political or ideological crime, members of his or her family are also punished.

The widespread or systematic practice of enforced disappearance constitutes a crime against humanity as defined in applicable international law and shall attract the consequences provided for under such applicable international law.

Any citizen of Benin who is outside the Republic and is found guilty of an act considered to be criminal under Beninese law may be tried and sentenced in Beninese courts, if the act is punishable under the laws of the country where it was committed.

Stressing the need to treat all forms of violence against women and girls, including crimes committed in the name of honour, as a criminal offence, punishable by law,

A commission in the Ministry of Justice was studying the possible depenalization of punishable acts of minor importance, such as debt.

The right to existence in its physical sense is sustained by the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, which codified customary law in 1948.

Stressing the need to treat all forms of violence against women and girls, including crimes committed in the name of honour, as a criminal offence, punishable by law,

Parties to the 1988 Convention are required to establish money laundering as a punishable offence and to adopt the measures necessary to enable the authorities to identify, trace and freeze or seize the proceeds of drug trafficking.