The legal commission for appointments and immunities endorsed a bill whereby an amendment made to the Penal Code in April 2014 is annulled. By this amendment, the MPs decided, by derogation from Article 60, that the statute of limitations will not be applied to persons who committed such offenses as abuse of power or authority, misuse of power and misconduct in office during the April 7, 2009 events or in connection with these events.
The given amendment was excluded from the law following a Constitutional Court judgment by which this was declared unconstitutional. Thus, if the bill is adopted by Parliament, the offenses committed during the April 2009 events and those related to these will be punished in the general way, as all the other offenses, IPN reports.
Article 60 of the Penal Code provides that the person is exempted from criminal liability if two years have passed since the commission of a minor offense, five years in the case of a less serious offense, 15 years in the case of a serious offense, 20 years in the case of a very serious offense and 25 years in the case of an exceptionally serious offense. The acts of torture are punished when they are identified.
