US EditionPeru Juvenile Detention in Adult Prisons Concerns UN Rights Experts
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Peru juvenile detention in adult prisons concerns UN rights experts
The UN Subcommittee on the Prevention of Torture (SPT) expressed concern Friday after visiting Peru, where it observed serious issues such as prison overcrowding, lengthy pretrial detention, and a controversial new law that treats 16- and 17-year-old juveniles as adults within the penal system. The Congress of the Republic of Peru recently passed legislation allowing teenagers aged 16 and 17 to be held criminally responsible for serious offenses…
The Constitutional Council continues to pay attention to the specificities of juvenile justice. The Sages reaffirmed on Friday, 27 June, that minors over the age of 16 must not be treated equally with an adult, notes Le Parisien. They have been seized of a priority issue of constitutionality (QPC), concerning a provision that provides that accused persons over the age of 16 years, who are returned to the juvenile court, are treated as adults. Th…
The Sages had before them a priority question of constitutionality concerning a provision of the Juvenile Criminal Justice Code.
The Constitutional Council recalled on 19 June 2025 that juvenile justice is not a subset of criminal justice. It is an autonomous branch, governed by its own principles.
On 19 June, the Constitutional Council censored the most emblematic provisions of the Attal Act aimed at "strengthening the authority of justice with regard to juvenile offenders and their parents." Is that to say that the criminal law of minors would have become untouchable? The magistrate Valérie-Odile Dervieux analyses for us five provisions censored and proposes to draw from them guide lines for the future work of the legislator on this subj…
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