'Amnesty content' in document 'Azerbaijan - Criminal Code'

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RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

General provision

SECTION IV
RELEASE FROM CRIMINAL LIABILITY AND PUNISHMENT

CHAPTER 13
AMNESTY. PARDON. CONVICTION

Article 81. Amnesty

81.1. The amnesty act shall be accepted by Milli Medjlis of the Azerbaijan Republic in attitude individually and not certain circle of persons.

81.2. By amnesty act persons who have committed crimes, can be released from a criminal liability. The persons, condemned for commitment of crimes can be released from punishment, or term of the punishment appointed on them can be reduced or deserved part of punishment can be replaced with mitigate kind of punishment, or such persons can be released from additional punishment. From the persons who have been released from punishment, by amnesty act previous conviction can be removed.

RELEVANT ROME STATUTE PROVISIONS

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;