"If a person literally has nowhere else to go, then enforcement of the anti-camping ordinance against that person criminalizes her for being homeless".
When the Supreme Court of India ruled on Wednesday that it would reverse the decision of a lower court and uphold the constitutionality of a law that effectively criminalizes homosexuality, there was widespread shock.
Earlier this week, Putin signed a new law that criminalizes "rehabilitation of Nazism," which includes spreading "false information" about the conduct of Soviet forces during the war, thereby squelching any conversation about atrocities committed by the Red Army during its march across Europe.
The Marijuana Policy Project, a national organization urging reform of cannabis laws, argues that the THC test "criminalizes sober drivers".
They must navigate an Official Secrets Act, which criminalizes the publication of classified information and a plaintiff-friendly libel law, which lacks American-style exceptions for public figures.
"The extreme right wing of the Republican Party has taken over to the point where we now have an amendment in several states that criminalizes a woman's right to choose," he said, referring to the so-called personhood amendments being considered in some states.
The results of the review will be published by the end of September, and may prompt new legislation that criminalizes rate manipulation, according to a statement from the British government.
The court, applying part of the old Jordanian legal code that criminalizes insulting the king to an Internet jibe against the Palestinian president, was not swayed by Mr.Hamamreh's s argument that he had played no part in the decision by the person who did upload the image to Facebook to draw it to his attention by adding his name as a tag to the text that accompanied it.
The Duma is considering a bill "on the protection of religious feelings of the citizens of Russia," which criminalizes blasphemy and includes the possibility of a prison term.
– The bill criminalizes the forced stripping of women, or disrobing, in public spaces or in private confines, with a minimum jail term of three years and a maximum of seven.
The public outrage over the December attack led to the passage of a new sexual offense law in March that imposes stronger penalties for violence against women and criminalizes actions like stalking and voyeurism.
