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GENERAL PART
Chapter Twelve
AMNESTY AND PARDON
Persons granted an amnesty shall be given immunity from criminal prosecution, complete or partial remission of sentence, mitigation of the imposed sentence by the application of a less severe type of sentence, annulment of the conviction or a cessation of the application of a particular legal consequence of conviction.
GENERAL PART
Chapter Twelve
AMNESTY AND PARDON
Amnesty
Article 96
Persons granted an amnesty shall be given immunity from criminal prosecution, complete or partial remission of sentence, mitigation of the imposed sentence by the application of a less severe type of sentence, annulment of the conviction or a cessation of the application of a particular legal consequence of conviction.
GENERAL PART
Chapter Twelve
AMNESTY AND PARDON
Application of the General Part in Amnesty and Pardon
Article 98
(1) It the amnesty or pardon change the provision on a criminal sanction, the general part of this Penal Code shall apply.
(2) If a life sentence was imposed, the pardon or amnesty shall impose a sentence of imprisonment between twenty-five and thirty years.
(3) The rights of third persons shall by no means be affected by judgements connected with the granting of amnesties and pardons.
Article 17
Issues of admissibility
1. Having regard to paragraph 10 of the Preamble and article 1, the Court shall determine that a case is inadmissible where:
(b) The case has been investigated by a State which has jurisdiction over it and the State has decided not to prosecute the person concerned, unless the decision resulted from the unwillingness or inability of the State genuinely to prosecute;