Parliament building in Hanoi
The code, which will take effect starting in July 2016, will also drop the death penalty for seven crimes: surrendering to the enemy, opposing order, destruction of projects of national security importance, robbery, drug possession, drug appropriation, and the production and trade of fake food.
By KTT, Nov 27, 2015
Members of Vietnamese National Assembly (NA), the country’s top legislature, have passed the revised Penal Code that includes abolishing death sentence for people who are charged with corruption, state media reported Friday.
The code, which will take effect starting in July 2016, will also drop the death penalty for seven crimes: surrendering to the enemy, opposing order, destruction of projects of national security importance, robbery, drug possession, drug appropriation, and the production and trade of fake food.
Accordingly, if corrupt Vietnamese officials handed at least three fourths of the illegal assets or money they made, they could only be sentenced to maximum of a life in prison.
This regulation, which is stated in Article 40 of the Penal Code, received the least vote from lawmakers, compared to the rate for other draft laws, according to the media. Only 69.23% of lawmakers at the NA’s meeting on Nov 26 agreed with the rule, the online Thoi Bao Kinh Te Viet Nam newspaper reported.
A number of lawmakers have claimed that removing death sentence for corruption crime shows the country’s humane policies and tolerance to violators. International human rights groups and some Western countries have been urging Vietnam to remove its death penalty.
However, local observers worried that the move could leave room for corruption to run even worse if there lacks a strict punishment.
At the meeting on Nov 26, lawmakers agreed that people age above 75 would be commuted to life imprisonment.
Vietnam has been able to recover only 10% of the corrupt assets for the state budget.
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November 27, 2015
Vietnam Parliament Passes Revised Penal Code Removing Death Penalty for Corruption
by Nhan Quyen • [Human Rights]
Parliament building in Hanoi
By KTT, Nov 27, 2015
Members of Vietnamese National Assembly (NA), the country’s top legislature, have passed the revised Penal Code that includes abolishing death sentence for people who are charged with corruption, state media reported Friday.
The code, which will take effect starting in July 2016, will also drop the death penalty for seven crimes: surrendering to the enemy, opposing order, destruction of projects of national security importance, robbery, drug possession, drug appropriation, and the production and trade of fake food.
Accordingly, if corrupt Vietnamese officials handed at least three fourths of the illegal assets or money they made, they could only be sentenced to maximum of a life in prison.
This regulation, which is stated in Article 40 of the Penal Code, received the least vote from lawmakers, compared to the rate for other draft laws, according to the media. Only 69.23% of lawmakers at the NA’s meeting on Nov 26 agreed with the rule, the online Thoi Bao Kinh Te Viet Nam newspaper reported.
A number of lawmakers have claimed that removing death sentence for corruption crime shows the country’s humane policies and tolerance to violators. International human rights groups and some Western countries have been urging Vietnam to remove its death penalty.
However, local observers worried that the move could leave room for corruption to run even worse if there lacks a strict punishment.
At the meeting on Nov 26, lawmakers agreed that people age above 75 would be commuted to life imprisonment.
Vietnam has been able to recover only 10% of the corrupt assets for the state budget.