Indian govt proposes overhauling colonial-era criminal laws, including on sedition
In modern India, the sedition law has frequently been used as a tool of suppression by successive democratically elected governments to intimidate people who protest against authority.
Indonesia's new laws a threat to privacy, press and human rights, says UN
Indonesia's parliament approved the legislative overhaul, part of a decades long process to replace its colonial-era penal code.
Indonesia set to pass new criminal code that will ban sex outside marriage
Decades in the making, the revision of the country's colonial-era penal code has sparked mass protests in recent years, although the response has been considerably more muted this year.
Indonesia set to penalise sex outside marriage in overhaul of criminal code
The legislative overhaul will also ban insulting the president or state institutions and expressing any views counter to Indonesia's state ideology.
How Canada, Australia, UK changed laws after mass shootings
Stricter gun laws have been introduced in the US Congress after past mass shootings, but they have been defeated by Republicans, independents and some moderate Democrats.
Indonesia leader reassures firms after court rules against investment law
The president stresses that the court has ruled the law will remain in effect pending the changes, which his cabinet will address as quickly as possible.
