legal adaptations if its prescribed penalty is milder than the penalty for the crime subject of the reconciliation or conciliation; reversal of the reconciliation or conciliation has no effect on the abatement of criminal proceedings. Reconciliation or conciliation does not have an effect on civil rights. If there are multiple victims, reconciliation does not have an effect unless it is issued by all of them; and if there are multiple defendants, it must include all of them. It is permissible to reconcile or conciliate after the final judgment is issued pursuant to the conditions established when conciliation is entered into at the trial stage, in addition to payment of the fees and expenses of the lawsuit to the accused, and acknowledge it before a sentence enforcement judge. In this case, an order shall be issued to stay the execution of the imposed penalty, and the provisions stipulated in the Law regarding the suspension of the execution of the penalty shall apply to it.” 18. The NIHR agrees with the provisions of Articles (21- bis), (21- bis) (a), and (21-bis) (b) as stated in the proposed law, as they are consistent with the approach based on limiting the penalties involving deprivation of liberty and moving towards alternatives others than criminal proceedings, as stated in international and regional human rights instruments. 19. Article (226-bis) of the proposed law stipulates that, “In the event of a full confession of the offense in the misdemeanor articles, the accused may express his desire before the Public Prosecution or the court, as the case may be, to conduct an expeditious trial. The Public Prosecution may set a date for a hearing to consider this case within three days. If the court accepts to consider the case according to expeditious proceedings, the penalty prescribed for the crime is reduced to no more than half of its maximum limit, and if the penalty has a special minimum limit, both limits of the penalty is reduced by half, and the sentence is issued in the same hearing. The court may decide to hear the case in accordance with normal proceedings if the accused, or one of the accused in the case of multiple accused, changes his will or his full confession, or fails to be present at the hearing, himself or his representative, without an acceptable excuse before closure of the pleading; or if the court deems, on its own, that the case is disqualified from adjudication in the expeditious proceedings”. The NIHR concluded that it agrees in principle with the provision of Article (226- bis), as stated in the proposed law, and it advises to add a legal guarantee that the Public Prosecution must collect evidence and other proofs and shall not refer the criminal case to the court until after the accused confesses willingly and without coercion. 20.  Article (280-bis) stipulates that, “A member of the Public Prosecution, at the rank of prosecutor at least, has the right to issue a criminal order in misdemeanors punishable by imprisonment for a period not exceeding one year or a fine of a minimum of one thousand dinars, and issue the order with a fine that does not exceed one thousand 57