Turkey’s Parliament ratifies a penal reform bill to reduce sentences of thousands of prisoners aimed at easing overcrowding at prisons and to protect them from the coronavirus
Turkey’s Justice Minister Abdulhamit Gul has held a coordination meeting via video conferencing about precautions against the coronavirus before holding a news conference.
Sex crimes that offend the public's conscience as well as drug crimes, first degree murder, crimes of violence against women and terrorist crimes were excluded from the reform. But it will toughen sentences on those who organise criminal groups for the purpose of monetary profit.The measures will roughly double the number of beneficiaries of alternative penal arrangements from about 45,000 to 90,000 in home confinement due to such illnesses.
On Monday, the death toll in the country from the coronavirus rose to 1,296. The country has 61,049 confirmed cases of the coronavirus.
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