The Permanent Commission on Justice and Human Rights is continuing to analyse the Draft Penal Code Law for the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, in order to amend incomprehensible aspects that could obscure the content of this piece of legislation, which aims to put an end to impunity regarding specific situations and actions that are not in line with the good coexistence established by the Government of our country.

The work of the Senate Permanent Commission on Justice and Human Rights began on the day with clarifications from the Chief Counsel of the Institution, Enrique Ramón Eseng Mansogo Mangue for the parliamentarians, on technical matters deriving from comparative law and modern university disciplines, in order to better draft the legal text under study at second reading.

The work resulting from the observations of the body of lawyers consisted in analysing questions and innovations that appear technically in the text of the Draft Penal Code Law for the Republic of Equatorial Guinea.

The deliberations overseen by the President of the Senate, Teresa Efua Asangono, accompanied by the President of the Permanent Commission on Justice and Human Rights, Antonio Pascual Oko Ebobo, focused on the adaptation and enrichment of the general provisions on crimes and offences, those responsible and the sentences, together with the circumstances that provide exemption from penal responsibility or increase it, covered in book one and heading 1 and 2.

The senators on the Commission also debated aspects regarding mixed circumstances, persons criminally responsible for crimes and offences, and criminal responsibility for legal persons, permanent, major, medium and minor imprisonment, taking into account the technical guidelines provided by the body of counsel.

Source: Official Web Page of the Government