(2) No person shall be returned guilty of committing a crime until
the guilt is recognized by an effective court verdict.
(3) No person shall be held responsible twice for the same crime.
Article 4. Grounds of Criminal Responsibility
Grounds of criminal responsibility are commitment of a socially
dangerous act with attributes of corpus delicti as provided by the
criminal law.
CHAPTER 2. CRIMINAL LAW BOUNDS
Article 5. Application of the Criminal Law to Persons Committing Crimes
within the Kyrgyz Republic
(1) Any person committing crime within the Kyrgyz Republic shall be
held responsible hereunder.
(2) In case of a crime committed outside of the Kyrgyz Republic,
responsibility shall take effect hereunder if such crime is accomplished
or prevented within the Kyrgyz Republic.
(3) Should a crime be committed within the Kyrgyz Republic by a
diplomatic representative of a foreign states or other person outside the
competence of the Kyrgyz Republic courts according to current laws and
international agreements, such matter shall be resolved diplomatically
based on international law provisions.
Article 6. Application of the Criminal Law to Persons Committing Crimes
outside of the Kyrgyz Republic
(1) The Kyrgyz Republic nationals as well the Kyrgyz Republic
stateless residents committing crimes outside the Kyrgyz Republic shall
be held responsible hereunder unless sentenced by foreign state court.
(2) The Kyrgyz Republic nationals committing crimes in another
country shall not be extradited to that country.
(3) Foreign citizens and stateless persons committing crimes
outside the Kyrgyz Republic and staying within its area may be extradited
to foreign state to be held responsible or serve sentence in accordance
with international agreement.
Article 7. The Criminal Law Force in Time
(1) Criminality and penality of an act shall be determined by law
effective at the time such act was committed.
(2) The law that eliminates penality of an act or mitigates
sentence is retroactive, i.e. applied to persons who committed the crime
before the effective date of such law, including those serving or having
served sentence but having prior conviction.
(3) The law that determines penality of act, aggravates sentence or
otherwise deteriorates the state of the person shall not have retroactive
effect.
SECTION II. CRIME
CHAPTER 3. NOTION AND TYPES OF CRIME