Introducing imprisonment for insulting crimes that apply to insulting people, raising the upper limit of statutory penalties, and creating a "detention sentence" that unifies "imprisonment" and "imprisonment", such as the Penal Code. The amendment was voted on by the Legal Committee of the House of Representatives and passed by a majority of the LDP and Komeito parties.
In amendments to the Criminal Code, etc., in order to strengthen measures against false accusation on SNS, imprisonment will be introduced for insults that apply to acts that openly insult people, and the upper limit of statutory penalties will be raised.
In addition, among the sentences that accompany detention, the creation of "imprisonment" that unifies "imprisonment" that is obligatory for prison work and "imprisonment" that is not obligatory is included.
The revised bill was amended by the House of Representatives Legal Committee on the 18th to verify whether freedom of expression was unreasonably restricted three years after its enforcement, and to take necessary measures in the supplementary provisions. After that, a vote was taken, and it was passed by the majority of the Liberal Democratic Party, the Komeito Party, the Nippon Ishin no Kai, and the Democratic Party for the People.
On the other hand, the bill submitted by the Constitutional Democratic Party to create a new crime that punishes the act of attacking the other party's personality over measures against false accusation on SNS has been rejected.