'Individual commission' in document 'Afghanistan - Penal Code'

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RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

First Book
General Provisions

Section Two
CRIMES

Chapter two
Elements of Crimes

Part One
Material element

First - Act, Cause and Effect

Article 28 :

(3) If the cause alone should be considered sufficient for producing the effect of crime, in this case the doer alone shall be considered responsible for his criminal act.

First Book
General Provisions

Section Two
CRIMES

CHAPTER THREE
Association in Crime

Part One
Principal offender and Accomplice

Article 38 :

A person is regarded the principal offender in the following instances :

1. When he alone or with the association of someone else commits a crime ;
2. When he intervens in the commission of a criminal act in such a way as to intontionally commit one of the acts comprising the crime.

RELEVANT ROME STATUTE PROVISIONS

Article 25
Individual criminal responsibility
3. In accordance with this Statute, a person shall be criminally responsible and liable for punishment for a crime within the jurisdiction of the Court if that person:
(a) Commits such a crime, whether as an individual, jointly with another or through another person, regardless of whether that other person is criminally responsible