Africa-Press – Angola. The president of the Supreme Court (TS), Joel Leonardo, appealed to Angolan citizens living abroad to the need to have legal literacy and refrain from committing crimes, especially drug trafficking, in countries where these crimes carry the death penalty, Novo Jornal reported.
According to the presiding judge of the TS, global legal systems are tightening the siege on so-called “faceless crimes” in order to ensure effective punitive responses to safeguard the prevalence of States.
Therefore, he drew attention to the need to improve the legal education of Angolans residing abroad.
“Nowadays, with the strengthening of dialogue between bodies that administer world justice, extraditions appear as the last resort in the treatment of these crimes, punishments are more severe and there are countries that resort to capital punishment,” warned Joel Leonardo.
The president of the Supreme Court made these statements in India during a meeting he held with the extraordinary and plenipotentiary ambassador of Angola to India, Maldives, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bhutan, Clemente Camenha, this Thursday, 21st.
Meanwhile, the president of the TS and the Superior Council of the Judiciary (CSMJ) was informed by the embassy of the existence of an Angolan citizen detained in Nepal for drug trafficking, and warned that global legal systems are tightening the noose on these crimes.
Joel Leonardo is in India, where he is participating in the 25th International Conference of Chief Justices of the World (ICCJW), which will take place from the 20th to the 24th of this month, in the city of Lucknow.
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