It's About Time
It looks like the Czech Republic is finally getting serious about
cracking down on child porn.
Czech President Vaclav Klaus signed a bill stipulating punishment for the possession of child pornography into law Thursday, Klaus's spokesman Petr Hajek told CTK Thursday.
Up until now, it has not be illegal to posses child porn here in the Czech Republic. Manufacturing and distributing was punishable by up to two years in prison (under the new law it will be a maximum of eight) but it was difficult to root out the networks when the police could not investigate people for mere possession.
Despite the objections of certain MPs that people could be framed by having child porn sent to their email inbox, this common sense measure has finally passed.
And none too soon, I might add.
cracking down on child porn.
Czech President Vaclav Klaus signed a bill stipulating punishment for the possession of child pornography into law Thursday, Klaus's spokesman Petr Hajek told CTK Thursday.
Up until now, it has not be illegal to posses child porn here in the Czech Republic. Manufacturing and distributing was punishable by up to two years in prison (under the new law it will be a maximum of eight) but it was difficult to root out the networks when the police could not investigate people for mere possession.
Despite the objections of certain MPs that people could be framed by having child porn sent to their email inbox, this common sense measure has finally passed.
And none too soon, I might add.
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