After the issuance of the Penal Code and alternative measures in July 2017, the Court of Cassation witnessed the issuance of cassation rulings and the referral of a number of cases to the Supreme Criminal Appeals Court to re-adjudicate them so that the appellant can try him in accordance with the provisions of the new law, according to what a number of lawyers have confirmed. A judicial source for the homeland confirmed that all the cases in which a sentence of imprisonment of five years or less was issued, and in which no final ruling was issued before the issuance of the Alternative Penal Code, it was returned to the Supreme Court of Appeal to re-adjudicate the investigation in accordance with the principle of the most favorable law for the accused, pointing to the replacement of the prison sentence in some of the cases pending appeal With alternative penalties.
