Eritrea told the UN children’s-rights committee that its 2015 Penal Code was not yet enforced and identified the Transitional Penal Code as the working law. The published replacement contained separate personal-use drug offences and a fine alternative, but its entry-into-force rule required gazette publication. A UN Special Rapporteur’s 2025 report also said that the new codes had not been brought into force.[1][2][3]
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References
- Government of Eritrea — Replies to the Committee on the Rights of the Child, CRC/C/ERI/RQ/5-62024 · Received 6 November, distributed 11 November 2024; paragraphs 40–41 identify the working law and state that the 2015 code is not yet enforcedarchived
- Ministry of Justice, State of Eritrea — Penal Code 2015, English editionMinister’s foreword and Prelude; Articles 1–3, 376–381, 395–396; publication is distinct from entry into forcearchived
- UN Special Rapporteur on Eritrea — Report A/HRC/59/24, 2025Mohamed Abdelsalam Babiker · 2025 · Printed/PDF p. 8, paragraph 36: the 2015 codes had not been brought into forcearchived
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