Pardon

Burkina Faso

Burkina Faso - Constitution 1991 (2015) EN

Title 3 Of the President of Faso

Article 54

The President of Faso exercises the right of pardon. He proposes the laws of amnesty.

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;