5.2. Application of the criminal law by analogy shall not be allowed.
Article 6. Principle of equality before the law
The persons who have committed crimes, shall be equal before the law and shall be subjected to the crime
liability irrespective of race, nationalities, creeds, language, an origin, property and official position, belief,
belonging to political parties, trade unions and other public associations, and also other circumstances.
Article 7. Principle of the responsibility for fault
7.1. The person shall be subjected to the criminal liability and punishment only for socially dangerous action
(action or inaction) and its consequences, concerning of which his fault is provided.
7.2. The person shall not be subjected to the criminal liability for innocent causing of harm.
Article 8. Principle of validity
8.1. Punishment and other measures of criminal - legal nature instituted to the person, who has committed a
crime, shall be fair, and shall correspond to nature and a degree of public danger of a crime, circumstances
of committing it and nature of a guilty person.
8.2. Nobody shall be instituted to criminal liability twice for the same crime.
Article 9. Principle of humanism
9.1. The Criminal Code shall provide safety of people.
9.2. Punishment and other measures of criminal - legal nature applied to the person, who has committed a
crime, shall not have the purposes causing physical sufferings or humiliation of human dignity.
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ACTION OF THE CRIMINAL LAW
Article 10. Action of the criminal law in time
10.1. The criminality and punish of action (action or inaction) shall be determined by the criminal law,
exercised during commitment of this action (action or inaction). No one shall be applied to criminal liability for
action, which was not admitted as a crime at the time of committing it.
10.2. Time of committing socially dangerous action (action or inaction) shall be time of committing a crime
irrespective on time of approach of consequences.
10.3. The criminal law, which shall eliminate criminality of action (actions or inaction) and its punish, soften
punishment or otherwise improve position, of the person who have committed a crime, shall have back force,
and that shall be distributed on the persons who has committed the appropriate action (action or inaction) till
the introduction of such law as valid, and also on the persons who is sentenced, or who has served
sentenced time but previous conviction is not removed or is not extinguished.
10.4. The criminal law, provided for by criminality of action (actions or inactivity), strengthening punishment
or otherwise worsening position of the person who has committed a crime, shall not have back force.
Article 11. Implementation of the criminal law on the persons who have committed a crime on the
territory of the Azerbaijan Republic
11.1. The person, who has committed a crime on the territory of the Azerbaijan Republic, shall be applied to
the criminal liability by the present Code. The crime, which has begun, proceeded, or terminated on territory
of the Azerbaijan Republic, shall be admitted as crime committed on the territory of the Azerbaijan Republic.
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