Criminalising in a sentence

Many Palestinians say Israel is criminalising acts of resistance by an occupied people - the Israeli Prison Service (IPS) told the BBC all prisoners are detained "according to and under the provisions of the law".

The Act claims to rectify the situation by criminalising Muslim men who execute divorce through instant triple talaq.

The members have just voted against keeping the “status quo”, ie, retaining the current legislation criminalising drug possession.

The psychologists’ association had welcomed the bill criminalising those pseudo conversion therapies on April 22 last year.

He said criminalising  gangs might have made it more difficult for members of the  gangs to freely come to the table for fear of being arrested.

How can Nigeria claim to uphold democracy while criminalising dissent and weaponising state institutions against its citizens?

It could also set a standard for courts criminalising other student camps across Britain.

They are among a broader group of journalists, activists and lawyers charged under Decree 54, a law criminalising the dissemination of “fake news” aimed at harming public safety or national defence.

This malicious use of AI prompted lawmakers to introduce a bill earlier this year criminalising non-consensual, AI-generated sexualised imagery.

Fear factor, a cumbersome tax regime and tax laws criminalising defaults have depressed private investments, noted economist and former Planning Commission chief Montek Singh Ahluwalia said on Sunday.

It has been claimed criminalising those individuals would ensure they do not benefit from fraud.

Mr Banda said when PAC forms Government in 2021, criminalising tribalism will be one of the things that will be prioritised in the quest to unite the nation that has been divided by those in power with the help of few opposition members.

The 8 May incident was the first in a series of confrontations in the council over who would have the power to legislate controversial bills, including one approved later in June criminalising disrespect of the national anthem.

They will issue tweets and commands criminalising incorrect thoughts and offer sinister warnings to those who think for themselves, but be absent, entirely ineffective or in the very worst cases actual participants when grooming gangs rape children.

Between the Arab Spring and now, we have witnessed that all the countries in the region are moving more and more towards criminalising speech.

Criminalising activities in support of asylum claims breaches EU's asylum laws and basic rights charter, Brussels says.

She said that criminalising petty offences and meting out inhuman acts on offenders was against Article 45 (1b) of the African Charter which Nigeria signed up for.

Describing as “unconstitutional” Indian Penal Code Section 497, which made adultery a punishable offence only for men, the Supreme Court had struck down the law criminalising adultery.

In 2015, the law criminalising the transmission of HIV came under the spotlight when the Constitutional Court heard an application filed by a Bulawayo woman challenging its constitutionality.

She said that the existing Victorian laws around sex work “urgently need to be changed” but that the Nordic model—effectively criminalising the industry—was not the answer.