Tougher sentencing in religious conversion bill, demand Organisation for the Protection of Race and

Tougher sentencing in religious conversion bill, demand Organisation for the Protection of Race and Religion

The Organisation for the Protection of Race and Religion has recommended that the penalty attached to the draft religious conversion bill be increased from a one year to a five year prison sentence.

The government are currently accepting comments on the draft law until June 20 and U Maung Maung, a member of the OPRR’s central executive committee said on June 9, that the organisation had seized this opportunity.

“We responded with our thoughts surrounding the weaknesses of the proposed bill,” he said, “the sentence is too short, after the subtracting the length of the trial, the criminal may not spend any time in jail.”

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