Slovakia’s parliament approved an amendment to its criminal code and associated legislation that, if it comes into effect, will significantly reduce the prescription periods for various crimes including rape, the penalties for others, and abolish the Special Prosecutor’s Office. Despite a narrative claiming to commit to restorative justice by reducing lengths for prison sentences and implementing a more diverse set of conviction options, the legislative changes perpetuate violence through autocratic legalism on the vast majority of the Slovak population, and especially those vulnerable to abuses of power. This assault on the criminal legal system in Slovakia by the ruling illiberal coalition is expected to put the Constitutional Court under pressure.
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A senior political scientist believes that the current outcry over Government-proposed changes to Independence Day is rooted in sentimentality and partisanship. Furthermore, the University of the West Indies (UWI) academic says Independence Day cannot be written in stone and that changes are inevitable in an era of “political development”.While Senior Lecturer in Political Science and former Head of the Department of Government, Sociology, Social Work and Psychology at UWI’s Cave Hill Campus Dr Tennyson Joseph maintained Independence Day cannot remain indefinitely, two other political scientists Dr Kristina Hinds and Professor Cynthia Barrow-Giles reject any attempts to fiddle with the important historical designation.Hours before Government on Thursday announced post-Cabinet that the status quo would remain, Dr Joseph argued that in the same way the independence of various Caribbean states replaced the Federation as the supreme form of sovereignty, republicanism must now do the