'National penalties - life imprisonment' 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

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.