Tajikistan

Criminal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan (Excerpt)

GENERAL PART

SECTION III. Sentence

CHAPTER 10. Imposition of Sentence

Article 61. Mitigating Circumstances

(1) The following circumstances are considered to be mitigating :

a) commitment of a crime for the first time ;
b) minority of an offender ;
c) pregnancy ;
d) if an offender has infants ;
e) commitment of a crime due to difficult individual, family or other circumstances ;
f) commitment of a crime under the influence of strong mental disturbance caused by duress, heavy insult or other wrongful acts of the victim ;
g) commitment of a crime under conditions of excess of justifiable defense, emergency, or during the detention of an individual who has committed a crime, in the case of justifiable risk, or execution of an order ;
h) commitment of a crime under the influence of threat or force, or because of financial, official or other dependence ;
i) surrender, frank repentance, active assistance in the discovery of the crime ;
j) rendering medical or other assistance to a victim after committing a crime, voluntary recovery of damages or losses ;

(2) If a circumstance indicated in part 1 of the present article is stipulated by the corresponding article of the present Code as an element of crime, it may not repeatedly be taken into account as a mitigating circumstance.

(3) When imposing a sentence other circumstances not pointed in the present article, part 1 may be considered to be mitigating.

Keywords

Mitigating factors - national proceedings



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