Jordan rejects bid to reduce age of criminal responsibility to seven years old

#Jordan rejects bid to reduce age of criminal responsibility to seven years old
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The Jordanian parliament. (Photo: AFP) The Jordanian parliament. (Photo: AFP)

Some Jordanian MPs somehow decided that childhood ends at the age of seven, introducing a bill to lower the age of criminal responsibility for juveniles to almost the same age school attendance begins to be compulsory, as though intending for punishment to begin before education.

Mahmoud Sharaan

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