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Act Amending The Penal Code And The Military Penal Code (Penalty Toughening For Torture)

Original Language Title: Lov om ændring af straffeloven og militær straffelov(Strafskærpelse for tortur)

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Law on the alteration of the penal code and military criminal law

(PFPING OF TFPING)

We, by God's grace, the Queen of the Danes, do our thing.

The parliament has adopted the following law, and we know that the following law has been approved by Parliament's consent :

§ 1

In the penal code, cf. Law Order no. 1260 of 23. October 2007, as amended by law no. 316 of 30. April 2008, the following changes are made :

1. After paragraph 93 a is inserted :

" § 93 b. When an offence is covered by this law's section 157 a, the statute of limitations shall not be granted. `

2. Insert after section 157 Chapter 16 :

" § 157 a. For the purposes of setting the penalty for a breach of this law, it shall be a matter of circumcision to the effect that the infringement has been carried out by torture.

Paragraph 2. The withdrawal shall be deemed to have been committed by torture if it has been committed in the exercise of a Danish, foreign or international public service or by adding another person injury to body or health or physical or physical pain or physical pain ; suffering

1) to obtain information or a confession from someone,

2) to punish, intimidate or compel someone to do, withstand or leave something or not ;

3) because of the political conviction, gender, race, skin colour, national or ethnic origin, belief or sexual orientation.

§ 157 b. The provisions of section 145 to 157 shall be equivalent in the exercise of foreign or international public service or duties if the action is covered by section 157 a. ` ;

§ 2

In military criminal law, law no. 530 of 24. June 2005 shall be amended as follows :

1. After section 10 is inserted in Chapter 1 :

" § 10 a. When an offence falls within the scope of this law's section 27 a limitation shall not be granted. `

2. The following section 27 is inserted :

" § 27 a. For the purposes of setting the penalty for a breach of this law, it shall be a matter of circumcision to the effect that the infringement has been carried out by torture.

Paragraph 2. The withdrawal shall be deemed to have been committed by torture if it has been committed in the exercise of a Danish, foreign or international public service or by adding another person injury to body or health or physical or physical pain or physical pain ; suffering

1) to obtain information or a confession from someone,

2) to punish, intimidate or compel someone to do, withstand or leave something or not ;

3) the political conviction, sex, race, complexion, national or ethnic origin, belief or sexual orientation. `

§ 3

The law shall enter into force on 1. July 2008.

§ 4

Paragraph 1. The law does not apply to the Faroe Islands and Greenland.

Paragraph 2. The Act of the Law may, by means of a royal device, be set in full or in part by force for the Faeroe Islands, with the deviations that the particular ferotable relationship states.

Paragraph 3. The Act of Section 2 may, by means of a royal device, be set in full or in part in force for the Faeroe Islands and Greenland, with the deviations from which the special ferry and Greenland conditions are attributed.

Givet at Christiansborg Castle, the 171. June 2008 MARGRETHE R / Lene Espersen