{"id":39804,"date":"2025-05-16T13:34:39","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T09:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iolr.org\/?p=39804"},"modified":"2025-05-16T13:34:59","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T09:34:59","slug":"punishments-for-theft-to-be-toughened-in-azerbaijan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iolr.org\/?p=39804&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Punishments for theft to be toughened in Azerbaijan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Punishments for theft, that is, the secret theft of someone else&#8217;s property, are being toughened in Azerbaijan, and the term of imprisonment for this act is being increased from 2 to 3 years. As reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/ru.apa.az\/sotsium\/v-azerbaidzane-uzestocayutsya-nakazaniya-za-krazu-610603\">APA<\/a>, this was reflected in the proposed amendment to the Criminal Code, which was submitted for discussion at today&#8217;s meeting of the Milli Majlis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">According to the bill, theft, that is, the secret theft of someone else&#8217;s property, is punishable by community service for a period of 360 to 480 hours, or correctional labor for up to 2 years, or restriction of freedom for up to 2 years, or imprisonment for up to 3 years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">According to the current Code, theft, i.e. secret theft of someone else&#8217;s property, is punishable by compulsory labor for a term of 360 to 480 hours, or correctional labor for up to 2 years, or restriction of freedom for up to 2 years, or imprisonment for up to 2 years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">After discussion, the bill was put to a vote and adopted in the first reading.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Punishments for theft, that is, the secret theft of someone else&#8217;s property, are being toughened in Azerbaijan, and the term of imprisonment for this act is being increased from 2 to 3 years. As reported by APA, this was reflected in the proposed amendment to the Criminal Code, which was submitted for discussion at today&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iolr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iolr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iolr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iolr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iolr.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iolr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39805,"href":"https:\/\/www.iolr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39804\/revisions\/39805"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iolr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iolr.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iolr.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iolr.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}