Kazakhstan

Criminal Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan

Section II. A Crime

Aticle 36. Physical or Psychic Coercion

1. The causation of damage to interests protected by the present Code as a result of physical coercion shall not be considered a crime, if as a consequence of such coercion a person could not control his actions (their omission).

2. The issue of criminal liability for the causation of damage to interests protected by the present Code as a result of physic coercion, as well as as a result of physical coercion, as a consequence of which a given person retained the possibility to guide his actions, shall be resolved subject to provisions of Article 34 of the present Code.

Keywords

Duress - national proceedings



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