Maputo — The Legal and Constitutional Affairs Commission of the Mozambican parliament, the Assembly of the Republic, has, in its latest redraft of the country's Penal Code raised the age of criminal responsibility from 10 to 16.
The Penal Code was to have been debated on the floor of the Assembly on Wednesday, and human rights campaigners were dismayed to find that the draft of the code circulated, and dated 23 April, still maintained the age of criminal responsibility as 10.
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