'Reduction of national sentence following pre-trial detention - national proceedings' in document 'Afghanistan - Penal Code'

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RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

First Book
General Provisions

Section One
Preliminary Provisions

CHAPTER TWO
Applicability of the Law

PART ONE
Applicability of the Law from the point of view of place and persons

Article 20 :

The period of arrest and imprisonment that the accused or convict has spent outside Afghanistan as a result of application of punitive verdicts shall be deducted from the duration of the punishment to which the person will be sentenced for commitment of the same crime in Afghanistan or from the punishment that is being implement upon him.

First Book
General Provisions

Section Three

CHAPTER ONE
Principal Punishments

Article 103 :

(1) Calculation of imprisonment shall start from the day on which the convict has been imprisoned in the jail.

(2) The period of detention shall be deducted from the convict's period of imprisonment.