The People’s Assembly Constitutional and Legislative Affairs Committee agreed to impose a harsher penalty for people found guilty of torture.
The amended law states that a public employee who tortures a person, participates in his/her torture or incites torture to extract a certain confession should be imprisoned for at least five years with hard labor. If the tortured person dies, then the penalty in this case would be the same as in premeditated murder.
A person who learns about a crime of torture and does not report it to concerned authorities will be sentenced to at least one year in prison.
Edited translation from MENA
