Monday, December 29, 2014

GLOBAL: The Government aims to reduce prison sentences … – EntornoInteligente

GLOBAL: The Government aims to reduce prison sentences … – EntornoInteligente

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The Information .com / The Justice Minister Rafael Catala has advanced on Monday that the government plans to amend the Penal Code reform, among other things, reduce prison sentences referred to the union pickets.

Catala, which He has chaired with the President of the Generalitat Valenciana, Alberto Fabra, the inuguración remodeling of the Audiencia Provincial de Alicante, said that in the case concerning Article 315, which refers to the constraints committed in the exercise of the right to strike, terms of ‘high’ imprisonment compared with the crime of “generic” constraints currently envisaged.

In this sense, has indicated that it has found that “are occurring sentences with sentences sometimes very high, custodial, maybe are a little disproportionate at this time. “

So, has advanced to one of the amendments that will be presented is in line with the reduction of the penalty provided Article 315, “to reduce significantly and as fine”.

Catala hopes that the reform of the Penal Code is approved in April. The terms on which his department are working in January amendments are voted, that the Senate consider reform in February and returning in March to Congress of Deputies for its approval a month later.

UGT requires that Article 315.3 of the Criminal Code UGT Monday demanded the Government to repeal section 315.3 of the Criminal Code, considering that is “convoluted, incomprehensible and unnecessary” and “criminalize” the pickets deroge strikes.

In a statement, the union recalled that the former Minister of Justice, Alberto Ruiz Gallardón, and promised to repeal this section of the Criminal Code, so the Government’s intention to reduce the penalties in such cases, taking advantage of the reform of the Penal Code, as has advanced the current minister, Rafael Catala, is a “patch”.

The union insists sentencing to imprisonment of up to five years “workers and parents” for exercising picket under this article “is not only unconstitutional, but reveals an absolute ignorance . of which involves the right to strike and freedom of association “

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