Justice/Penal Code: Important innovations in the pipe
CONCERNING many subjects in the legal field, the minister of Justice Abdellatif Ouahbi opens up new prospects. This is the case of the penal code project which will bring several innovations. One of them includes points related to activities on the Internet, particularly with regard to libels and insults, as well as the publication of photos on the various media platforms. The fact is that some people do what they want, post images, and insult people.
These are behaviors that hurt citizens under the pretext of freedom of speech. It is therefore imperative to protect individuals and society, said the minister of Justice before the M.P.s during the question time at the House of Councilors. The minister also insisted on monetary and alternative penalties.
• A national register of married people as a means to fight polygamy: Morocco does not have a national register of married people. The ministry of Justice is working on the project of setting up a digital platform, dedicated to married people to better fight illegal polygamy and the issuance of false celibacy certificates. The aim is to prevent attempts to circumvent the law and to prevent the frauds that occur regularly.
• Rehabilitation of former inmates will be simplified: In the same vein, the ministry of Justice wishes to simplify the operation of rehabilitation of former detainees, through the electronic and spontaneous adoption of this deed which can be printed on a computer. The goal of this measure is to integrate former inmates back into society instead of excluding them, insisted Abdellatif Ouahbi.
• The criminal record will be revisited: The minister of Justice refuses that former prisoners pay, throughout their lives, a high price for mistakes made in the past. The minister´s idea is to see progress made in terms of work on criminal records, according to the procedures and cases that will be defined by law. Indeed, The ministry of Justice wants to encourage prisoners to leave the criminal domain for a better world. This is why discussions have been initiated on the occasion of the draft law relating to the criminal procedure and to the criminal code. The idea consists in revising this system, which should involve prisoners who have attended vocational training or obtained university degrees during their incarceration. The minister insists on the review of the criminal records to enable citizens to reintegrate society. o
Mohamed CHAOUI
