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Tuesday, 3 December 2013 - 14:54

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Council for Judiciary Raises Concerns Over Immediate Jail Plan

The council for the judiciary has criticized the government’s immediate jail proposal for people convicted of crimes and sentenced to at least a year. Jail / Flickr Senior judges recommend that those people should be allowed to wait for the decisions on their appeals in freedom. The cabinet is planning to unveil immediately jail rules.

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