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The newly appointed prosecutor of Brussels, Jean-Marc Meilleur, has promised to improve the rate of cases that go to court.
Federal minister of equal opportunities, Joelle Milquet, has announced a new law that will make sexual harassment illegal in Belgium.
Uncertainty was put to rest Sunday, as Belgium’s King Philippe signed into law the right of minors to seek euthanasia.
Federal justice minister Annemie Turtelboom announced yesterday that all prison sentences longer than four months could now be served, either in prison or via electronic ankle bra
A court in Antwerp yesterday sentenced the first drug offenders to be brought to trial since the introduction of the city’s policy of zero tolerance in September of last year.
A proposal to extend the right to euthanasia to minors passed by a vote of 26 to 8 yesterday in the Senate committee on justice and social affairs.
