GENERAL PART
SECTION III. Sentence
CHAPTER 9. Concept, Purposes and Types of Sentences
Article 58. Deprivation of Freedom (Imprisonment)
(1) Deprivation of freedom means isolation of a convicted person by keeping him in a correctional colony under general, strict, especially strict regimes or in prison. Individuals who haven't reached the age of 18 years old when the verdict is pronounced are sentenced to serve the penalty in correctional facilities of general or intensified regime in the order established by Section V of the present Code.
(2) Deprivation of freedom may be imposed for a period of 6 months to 20 years.
(3) In case of substitution of deprivation of freedom for correctional labor or restriction of freedom it may be imposed for a period of less than 6 months.
(4) In case of partial or full cumulation of terms of imprisonment when imposing a sentence according to cumulative crimes the maximum term of deprivation of freedom must not exceed 25 years.
(5) Men convicted to imprisonment shall serve the sentence in the following facilities :
a) those who committed a crime due to negligence and were deprived of freedom for a period of no more than 5 years - serve in correctional facilities ;
b) those sentenced for a first offense for intentional crimes such as petty misdemeanors, misdemeanors, as well as those who committed a crime through carelessness and were deprived of freedom for a period of more than 5 years - serve in facilities of general regime.
c) those sentenced for a first offense for felonies - in facilities of intensified regime.
d) individuals convicted to imprisonment for especially grievous crimes for the first time, as well as in the event of recidivism - serve in facilities of strict regime ;
e) especially dangerous recidivists - serve in facilities of especially strict regime ;
f) individuals sentenced for especially grievous crimes for a period of more than 10 years, as well as in cases of especially dangerous recidivism, may serve not more than 5 years in prison.
(6) Women convicted to imprisonment shall serve the sentence in the following correctional facilities :
a) in the event of especially dangerous recidivism - serve in facilities of strict regime ;
b) those sentenced for crimes committed on the basis of neglectful conduct - serve in correctional facilities-settlements ;
c) others sentenced to imprisonment - serve in facilities of general regime.
(7) Depending on the character and degree of social danger of a crime, personality of a guilty person and other circumstances , the Court may impose a less strict type of facilities for serving the sentence in the form of imprisonment.
(8) A Court may change types of correctional facilities imposed by a verdict in accordance with the criminal executive code of the Republic Tajikistan.
GENERAL PART
Section I. Principal provisions of the criminal executive legislation of the Republic of Tajikistan
Chapter 2. Legal status of convicted persons
Article 20. Right of convicted persons to personal security
1. Convicted persons have the right to personal security.
2. If there is a danger to life, health or a danger of committing any other personal crime against a convicted person by other persons, he is entitled to apply to any official of the institution in charge of execution of the penalties of liberty restraint, confinement, deprivation of liberty and detention in a disciplinary military unit with the request to provide security or transfer him to a safe place. In this case the official shall take immediate measures to provide personal security for the convicted person.
3. The chief of the institution upon application of the convicted person or on his own initiative shall make a decision to transfer the convicted person to a safe place or take other measures for prevention of a crime against convicted person, or he shall make a decision about a place of further punishment serving in accordance with order established by law.
4. Officials who did not take necessary measures for providing security of convicted persons shall be liable according to legislation of the Republic of Tajikistan.
SPECIAL PART
Section V. Execution of the penalty of deprivation of liberty
Chapter 9. General provisions on execution of the penalty of deprivation of liberty
Article 70. Places of executing the penalty of deprivation of liberty
Persons sentenced to deprivation of liberty serve their punishment in correctional institutions.
Article 71. Types of correctional institutions
1. Correctional institutions include correctional colonies, educational colonies, prisons, and medical correctional institutions. Remand prisons function as correctional institutions in regard to convicts left to do household activities.
2. Adults sentenced to deprivation of liberty serve their punishment in correctional colonies and prisons. Correctional colonies are divided into colonies-settlements, colonies of general regime, intensive regime, strict regime and colonies of special regime.
3. Convicted persons mentioned in the first and fourth parts of Article 24 of the present Code shall serve their punishment in the medical correctional institutions.
4. Minors sentenced to deprivation of liberty, as well as the convicts left in educational colony until they reach the age of 20, shall serve their punishment in the educational colony.
Article 72. Determination of the correctional institution type for persons sentenced to deprivation of liberty
In accordance with the Article 58 of the Criminal Code of the Republic Tajikistan a court defines the type of correctional institution with appropriate regime, where a person sentenced to deprivation of liberty shall serve his punishment.
Article 73. Sending a person sentenced to deprivation of liberty to punishment serving
1. Persons sentenced to deprivation of liberty shall be sent to serve their punishment not later than within ten days since the administration of the remand prison received a notification that the punishment entered into its legal force. During this period a convicted person has a right to have a short-term meeting with close relatives or other persons.
2. The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Tajikistan in accordance with the present Code defines the order of sending convicts to correctional institutions.
3. A personal file shall be created on every person sentenced to deprivation of liberty.
a) Les peines d'emprisonnement sont accomplies dans un État désigné par la Cour sur la liste des États qui lui ont fait savoir qu'ils étaient disposés à recevoir des condamnés.
b) Lorsqu'il déclare qu'il est disposé à recevoir des condamnés, un État peut assortir son acceptation de conditions qui doivent être agréées par la Cour et être conformes aux dispositions du présent chapitre.
c) L'État désigné dans une affaire donnée fait savoir promptement à la Cour s'il accepte ou non sa désignation.
2.
a) L'État chargé de l'exécution avise la Cour de toute circonstance, y compris la réalisation de toute condition convenue en application du paragraphe 1, qui serait de nature à modifier sensiblement les conditions ou la durée de la détention. La Cour est avisée au moins 45 jours à l'avance de toute circonstance de ce type connue ou prévisible. Pendant ce délai, l'État chargé de l'exécution ne prend aucune mesure qui pourrait être contraire à ses obligations en vertu de l'article 110 ;
b) Si la Cour ne peut accepter les circonstances visées à l'alinéa a), elle en avise l'État chargé de l'exécution et procède conformément à l'article 104, paragraphe 1.
3. Quand elle exerce son pouvoir de désignation conformément au paragraphe 1, la Cour prend en considération :
a) Le principe selon lequel les États Parties doivent partager la responsabilité de l'exécution des peines d'emprisonnement conformément aux principes de répartition équitable énoncés dans le Règlement de procédure et de preuve ;
b) Les règles conventionnelles du droit international généralement acceptées qui régissent le traitement des détenus ;
c) Les vues de la personne condamnée ;
d) La nationalité de la personne condamnée ;
e) Toute autre circonstance relative au crime, à la situation de la personne condamnée ou à l'exécution effective de la peine, susceptible de guider le choix de l'État chargé de l'exécution.
4. Si aucun État n'est désigné comme prévu au paragraphe 1, la peine d'emprisonnement est accomplie dans un établissement pénitentiaire fourni par l'État hôte, dans les conditions définies par l'accord de siège visé à l'article 3, paragraphe 2. Dans ce cas, les dépenses afférentes à l'exécution de la peine sont à la charge de la Cour.