AMMAN — The
Lower House of Parliament endorsed the
draft amendment to the 2022 penal code during a session on Sunday, chaired by
Prime Minister
Bisher Al-Khasawneh, according to Al-Mamlaka TV.
اضافة اعلان
The amended draft law, which affects several articles of the
law, aims to safeguard social peace and security, reinforce the rule of law, and
achieve deterrence through imposing strict penalties on crimes that threaten
social safety.
The draft amendment gives courts leeway to impose
alternative penalties on crimes that infringe on freedoms, and imposes special
penalties on cases of fraud related to government contracts.
The draft also criminalizes vagrancy (begging) and intensifies
penalties on those who commit such acts, in addition to criminalizing acts that
intimidate or threaten people through the show of force.
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