criminal code

The adviser became the country's first deputy head of the Presidential Office and set up a national criminal code in 2012.

By including the vague term “sensitive information,” the new policy potentially covers a wide range of government information; it goes far beyond the federal criminal code, which focuses on protecting classified information.

Thailand's lese-majeste law has been in place since the creation of the country's first criminal code in 1908, although the penalty was toughened in 1976.

On Wednesday, Health Canada defended the procedure, saying that the criminal code sets out "strict eligibility" criteria.

In certain prison camps, up to 80% of residents are confined under Article 228 of the Criminal Code – which bans certain narcotics – nicknamed “the peoples’ statute,” as more citizens are incarcerated for it than any other, many serving over ten year stints for first-time offenses.