Civic organizations have expressed outrage over a dangerous norm sneaked in when nobody was looking. The new procedure introduced could, they warn, lead to a long period where offences committed within the prison system are not investigated at all, while also seriously compromising investigations into allegations of torture and ill-treatment by prison staff.
According to the Reanimation Package of Reforms coalition [RPR], this is not the first time that an unrelated norm has suddenly appeared after a draft law has passed through its first reading. The adoption of a Law on the High Council of Justice on Dec. 21 was long overdue and needed to comply with amendments to the Constitution which had come into force a month earlier.
