'Inducing' 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 :

(2) A person whose criminal act partakes in resulting the effect with a previous cause or (ono) concurrent with the act 'or after it shall 'be considered responsible, even if the person should not be cognizant of the effectivenes of his criminal act in resulting the effect.

First Book
General Provisions

Section Two
CRIMES

Chapter two
Elements of Crimes

Part One
Material element

Second - Initiation

Article 30

Initiator of felony shall be sentenced to the following punishments, unless otherwise stipulated in the law :

1. In cases where the punishment for the crime itself is death, continued imprisonment ;
2. In cases where the punishment for the crime itself is continued imprisonment, long imprisonment ;
3. In cases where the punishment for the crime itself is long imprisonment, medium imprisonment;
Or, one half of the maximum punishment of the crime itself.

First Book
General Provisions

Section Two
CRIMES

CHAPTER THREE
Association in Crime

Part One
Principal offender and Accomplice

Article 39

A person is regarded an accomplice in the following instances :

1. When he instigates a person to commit one of the acts comprising the crime and the crime takes place as a result of this instigation.
2. When he enters in to an agreement with another person to commit a crime and the crime takes place as a result of this agreement.
3. When he knowingly assists tho principal offender in any way with respect to equipment, faciltties or supplementary works for committing the crime and the crime takes place as a result of this assistance.

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:
(b) Orders, solicits or induces the commission of such a crime which in fact occurs or is attempted