{"schemaVersion":1,"recordType":"legal-status-history","workId":"law:eri:code:penal:2015","expressionId":"law:eri:code:penal:2015:en","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/status/","reviewedAt":"2026-07-14","assertions":[{"id":"status-assertion:penal-code-2015:volume","type":"document-publication","date":"2015","datePrecision":"year","statement":"The source volume identifies itself as the 2015 Penal Code and says the Ministry of Justice drafted it under a Government mandate.","source":{"label":"Penal Code source volume","url":"/sources/files/eritrea-penal-code-2015-en-faolex.pdf#page=1","locator":"Cover and codification statement, PDF pages 1–6"}},{"id":"status-assertion:codes-2015:ministry-report","type":"publication-and-enforcement-report","date":"2015-05-29","datePrecision":"day","statement":"The Eritrea Ministry of Information reported that the Ministry of Justice had published the new Civil, Penal, Civil Procedure, and Criminal Procedure Codes and that the laws had been put into effect.","source":{"label":"Eritrea Ministry of Information","url":"https://shabait.com/2015/05/29/the-publication-and-enforcement-of-the-new-codes-timely-and-indispensable-minister-fawzia-hashim/","locator":"Report published 29 May 2015, opening paragraph"}}],"unknowns":["later-amendments","repeal-or-replacement","consolidation","current-legal-force"]}