Article 70. Right to Seek Pardon
Every convict shall have the right to seek pardon, including mitigation of the imposed punishment. Details shall be prescribed by law.
General Part
Section 4.
Exemption from criminal liability and punishment.
Chapter 13.
Amnesty, pardon, criminal record.
Article 83. Pardon.
The act of pardon can completely or partially exempt the convict from the basic, as well as, from the supplementary punishment, or the convict’s unserved part of the punishment can be replaced with a softer punishment, or the criminal record can be expunged .
Article 92. Pardon
1. A person convicted of a crime may, upon an act of pardon, be released from both main and supplementary punishments in full or in part, or the unserved part of the punishment may be replaced with a milder punishment.
2. Pardon shall not be applied with respect to a person having committed criminal offences established under Articles 133-154, Article 308, point 1 of Part 2 of Article 441 or Article 450 of this Code.
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;