Second, it criminalises acts that need not be criminalised.
The new law (Legal high ban risks creating fresh crisis, 28 May), which criminalises the selling of so-called legal highs, but crucially does not criminalise the user, is the right thing to do.
Greste, incidentally, is being held on the same wing as activist Alaa Abd el Fattah, arrested in December on charges related to a protest held in violation of a new law that criminalises political gatherings of more than 10 people held without the police's permission.
A coalition of media groups – including AAP, ABC, APN, ASTRA, Bauer Media, Commercial Radio Australia, Fairfax Media, FreeTV, MEAA, News Corp Australia, SBS, The Newspaper Works and West Australian News – raised concern about an offence in the second bill which also criminalises disclosures.
It criminalises swaths of society, fills prisons with non-violent offenders, facilitates the creation and enrichment of violent gangs, forces those who use drugs to use adulterated, dangerous products, brings the law into disrepute, and costs vast amounts of money that could be put to better uses.
Section 377 of the Malaysian penal code, which criminalises "carnal intercourse against the order of nature" is a relic of the country's days as a British colony.
The "Nordic model" that Laura Lee is set to challenge decriminalises the sale of sex acts and criminalises the buying.
One of the biggest universities in the UK has obtained a high court injunction that criminalises all occupation-style protests on its 250-acre campus for the next 12 months, the Guardian has learned.
The claim asserts that GCHQ's actions were both unlawful under the Computer Misuse Act, which criminalises hacking, and that there was not sufficiently detailed legal authority to make GCHQ's hacking "in accordance with law" as required by Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights.
Facebook Twitter Google plus Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Google plus close 6.15pm ET23:15 After voters in two states approved the possession and consumption of marijuana in referendums earlier this week, the question arises: what about the conflict with federal law that still criminalises it?
Mr Tan's attorney argued that 377(a) criminalises a group of people for an innate attribute; the court concluced here that "there is, at present, no definitive conclusion" on the "supposed immutability" of homosexuality (Lee Hsien Loong, Singapore's prime minister, takes a different view).
