Criminal procedure

Penalties are draconian - the offender is threatened with a sentence of up to three years in prison, along with a money fine.

A court ruled for the continued arrest of a Turkish woman on July 23, for reportedly killing her abusive husband on April 7, despite her mother-in-law and father-in-law's request for her acquittal.

The controversy arose over the comments made by the president of the Commission Investigating Murders of Journalists, Veran Matic, on the trial for the murder of journalist Slavko Curuvija, Beta agency reported.

A 50-year-old man in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, was arrested on charges of sexually abusing his 3-year-old daughter, authorities said on Friday.

Police arrested the man after the girl's mother filed a complaint and a search of his office computer yielded files containing child pornography.

A 62-year-old foreign national was detained on Thursday on a European arrest warrant on the national highway connecting the southern cities of Patra and Pyrgos.

According to police, he is wanted by Swiss authorities for the repeated sexual abuse of minor.

The suspect has been remanded in custody pending his extradition.

Matic said he regarded the initiative to introduce new criminal act - "with the aim of effectively protecting the presumption of innocence and independence of the court" - as "rather dangerous, as much as it is senseless, given that it is being proposed by the representatives of the legal profession, and as professionals in this field, they should know basic principles of human rights protectio

The decision establishes that databases from the (telephone) base stations had been obtained in a lawful manner and can be used as evidence.

Mirjana Piljic, a spokeswoman of the Appellate Court, told this on Tuesday to Insajder.

The proposed form for amending the abuse of office exceeds the aspects analysed by the Constitutional Court of Romania, which did not question the limitation of the scope of the crime, according to an analysis carried out at the level of the Attorney General's Office into the impact of the recent amendments brought to the Criminal Code by Romania's lawmakers.

The Association announced on Monday that Matic in this way influenced the Trial Chamber in the process for murder of journalist Slavko Curuvija.

Matic: We respect the independence of the court, but we will not bury our head in the sand when it's clear to everyone what's going on.

A murder of a 56-year-old man is being investigated in Pleven, announced today the MoI Directorate.

The crime occurred on June 14 as a result of a scandal on a household basis between father and son. In the family home, the 26-year-old has struck his father with an axe. The 56-year-old man was admitted to a Pleven hospital where he died on 17 June.