'Amnesty content' in document 'Kyrgyzstan - Criminal Code (ENG)'

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RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

GENERAL PART

SECTION IV. EXEMPTION FROM LIABILITY AND INDEMNITY

CHAPTER 13. AMNESTY. CLEMENCY. CRIMINAL RECORD

Article 74. Amnesty

(1) Jogorku Kenesh of the Kyrgyz Republic issues Deed of Amnesty with regard to individually unspecified circle of persons.

(2) By the Deed of Amnesty, offenders may be exempted from criminal liability. Persons convicted for crimes may be indemnified or their sentences may be reduced or substituted with milder ones, either may such persons be exempted from additional sentence.

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;