Pardon

Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan - Criminal Code (EN) 1999

General provision

SECTION IV
RELEASE FROM CRIMINAL LIABILITY AND PUNISHMENT

CHAPTER 13
AMNESTY. PARDON. CONVICTION

Article 82. Pardon
82.1. The pardon shall be carried out by the President of the Azerbaijan Republic in the attitude of individually certain person.

82.2. By pardon act, a person condemned for a crime, can be released from serving a rest of punishment, or term of the punishment appointed to him can be reduced or deserved part of punishment can be replaced with mitigate kind of punishment.

82.3. Life imprisonment in order of the pardon can be replaced with imprisonment for the term of not over twenty-five years.

82.4. From the person who have been released from punishment, by pardon act conviction can be removed.

Azerbaijan - Criminal Code 1999 (amend 2018) (EN)

''Chapter 13. Amnesty. Pardon. Conviction Section IV. Release from criminal liability and punishment Article 82. Pardon''
82.1. The pardon shall be carried out by the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan in the attitude of individually certain person.
82.4. From the person who have been released from punishment, by pardon act conviction can be removed.

Rome Statute

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;