'Command responsibility - national proceedings' in document 'Estonia - Penal Code'

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RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

Part 2
SPECIAL PART

Chapter 8
OFFENCES AGAINST HUMANITY AND INTERNATIONAL SECURITY

Division 1
General Provisions

ยง 88. Punishment for offences provided for in this Chapter

(1) For an offence provided for in this Chapter, the representative of state powers or the military commander who issued the order to commit the offence, consented to the commission of the offence or failed to prevent the commission of the offence although it was in his or her power to do so shall also be punished in addition to the principal offender.

(2) Commission of an offence provided for in this Chapter pursuant to the order of a representative of state powers or a military commander shall not preclude punishment of the principal offender.