The Azerbaijani law forbidding gay sex was abolished in 2000. A special edition of "Azerbaijan", the official newspaper of the Parliament, published on 28 May, reported that the Parliament had approved a new Criminal Code, and that the President had signed a decree bringing it into force in September. The text of the new Criminal Code was also published. The old Article 113 (inherited from the Soviet era which punished anal sex between men with three years imprisonment) has been replaced with a new Article 150, which bans only forcible sexual acts.