The Government of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina rejected all amendments to the proposal to amend the criminal law of the Federation of BiH. This means that imprisonment sentences in a period of imprisonments were still able to be redeemed for criminal offenses against humanity and international law. True, now for a slightly higher price, because the value of one day in prison increased from 100 to 150 marks, the federal converts.
Amendments to the law on hold
Amendments to the Criminal Law of the Federation of BiH are re-pending. The interruption of the session due to the inconsistency of the agenda reiterated the discussion on the introduction of femicids as a criminal offense, as well as other planned amendments. The support of the law has announced the opposition, despite the Government of the Federation did not accept any of their amendments – or the one who asked for a prison for a year for the year to criminal offenses and international law cannot be redeemed anymore.
“I am quite disappointed by the explanation of the Ministry of Justice that it has nowhere could not do so because they are not subject to the amendment of the Criminal Code, in which direction are we going?” MP SDA in the FBiH dealer.
It states that about 20 judgments for these crimes have been recorded, and the perpetrators have ultimately replaced the perpetrators.
Although the proposed amendments, the Ministry of Justice did not include the criminal offenses against the Constitutional Order of the Federation, Trafficking and Organized Trafficking and Morality, General Anti-Marriage, Families and Youth – whose penalties will no longer be able to redeem.
Redemption of penalties
The “Proposal of the Law is not treated” Criminal offenses against humanity and international law “, and not in line with the Code of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in the context of these acts – the amendment is not accepted”, clarified from the FBiH Ministry of Justice.
“I am absurd that we can classify the situation and that we have certain amendments, so we will now talk about the Istanbul Convention, and in 15-20 years of war crimes,” Kokic-Hinovic added.
Among the rejected amendments are those representatives of DF Marijana Hrvić-Šikuljak, seven of them. Most were focused on increasing the minimum and maximum prison sentence for criminal offenses of domestic violence, severe bodily injury, rape and sexual harassment. It also suggested an increase in a cash amount for the purchase of imprisonment sentenced from 100 to 200km. And that amendment was rejected, and the Ministry proposed an increase only for 50 marks, with the following explanation:
“When preparing the Law on Amendments to the Criminal Law of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Federal Ministry of Justice has taken into account economic and financial income growth and businesses in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina regarding the value of the prison sentenced, in terms of the article 43a. The FBiH Criminal Code. “
“For more amendments, they sent absolutely the same reasoning – that they were consulting the professional public sanctions and take their opinion, not stating concrete reasons. I really can’t believe that no amendment was good enough to accept it,” Hrvić-Šikuljak highlighted.
Despite rejection by the Government, MPs announce that the amendment will not give up and that support will seek through parliament. Recall, due to the large number of amendments, amendments to the Criminal Law are withdrawn from the parliamentary procedure in February. After pressing the public, the text amendment is included by Femicid as a new criminal offense, writes Flash Info.
