Amendments to the Penal Code, scheduled to take effect in November 2008, imposed more severe sanctions for crimes against sexual integrity and defined domestic violence as a separate criminal offence.
预定于2008年11月生效的《刑法典修正案》对性侵犯犯罪施以更严厉的制裁，并将家庭暴力界定为一项单独的罪行。