The Justice Ministry straddled the fence in an interim report on reviewing the statute of limitations for serious crimes and stressed that victims' feelings and other issues must be part of the debate.
The report, issued Friday after about two months of study, also cites the pros and cons of four options for reviewing the system, including the abolishment or extension of the limitations periods.
Although limitation periods for murder and other crimes were extended in the 2005 legal revision, the ministry took up the matter again on Jan. 22 in light of growing demand from relatives of crime victims that the system be reviewed.