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Ammon News - The Lower House Tuesday passed the law amending the Penal Code during a session chaired by the Speaker Abdul Karim Dughmi and attended by Prime Minister Bisher Khasawneh and cabinet members.

The draft criminalizes piracy with life imprisonment and up to the death penalty if it results in one or more deaths, a jail term of no less than two years for the crime of intimidating people, and stiffened the vagrancy penalty, starting with a three-month prison term and up to at least two years for those who recruit others for beggary, and a prison term of no less than 6 months in cases of recurrence, in which it is not permissible to use discretionary mitigating reasons.

The bill punishes behavior associated with riot while intoxicated with a jail term of no less than three months, or a fine of no less than 100 dinars, and penalizes selling at excessive prices with a prison term of no less than one month and not exceeding 3 years, as well as a fine of no less than 200 dinars and no more than 500 dinars.

Among other crimes, the amendments suspend such misdemeanor penalties as fraud and abuse of trust, even if the prison term exceeds one year, if the complainant waived after the issuance of the final verdict, and if the court saw the reasons to believe that he will not return to violating the law, based on the convict's record, age or the circumstances in which the crime was committed.