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‘Exceptional’ Cases: A Legal Dynasty of Political Crimes in Bulgaria
‘Exceptional’ Cases: A Legal Dynasty of Political Crimes in Bulgaria

Author(s): Martin Kanoushev
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Фондация за хуманитарни и социални изследвания - София
Keywords: Constitution; Penal Code; Criminal Proceedings Act; political crime (treason; betrayal; espionage; subversion; sabotage; anti-state agitation and propaganda), court; civil rights; criminal responsibility; deprivation of liberty; confi scation; fi ne, i

Summary/Abstract: This paper deals with the problem of the historical metamorphoses of political crimes as codifi ed in the criminal legislation of bourgeois Bulgaria as well as in a number of emergency laws adopted in the period between 1919 and 1944. It lays special emphasis on the specifi c way in which the communist regime in Bulgaria qualifi ed and punished the so-called counter-revolutionary crimes (crimes against the Socialist State) in the 1951 Penal Act and the 1968 Penal Code. In conclusion, the paper looks at the legislative changes regarding political crimes, introduced into Bulgarian law and society after 1989.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 40
  • Page Range: 193-223
  • Page Count: 31
  • Language: English