12.09.2005 - Source: UN High Commissioner for Refugees

English full text translation of the Law of the Republic of Armenia on Making Amendments and Supplementing the Criminal Code of 12 September 2005 ("Law of the Republic of Armenia on Making Amendments and Supplementing the RA Criminal Code") [ID 24403]

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16.09.2003 - Source: UN High Commissioner for Refugees

New provisions for extradition ("Background information; situation of ethnic minorities; groups possibly at risk: religious minorities, members of opposition, homosexuals, deserters") [#47207],  [ID 2937]

"92. The new Criminal Code which entered into force on 1 August 2003 stipulates that no foreign citizen or stateless person would be extradited to a state if (1) there are serious reasons to believe that their extradition was demanded for prosecution or serving punishment for reasons of their race, religion, ethnicity, membership of a particular social group or political opinion, (2) there is a serious risk that he or she would be subjected to torture or to inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment or (3) the country seeking extradition envisages the death penalty for the given crime. However, the new Code still criminalises the illegal crossing of the state border to seek asylum in Armenia. Only persons who enjoy political asylum provided by the Constitution and the 1995 Law on Political Asylum are exempted from criminal liability, excluding persons who are covered by the 1999 Law on Refugees."

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01.08.2003 - Source: UN High Commissioner for Refugees

English full text translation of the Republic of Armenia Criminal Code of 1 August 2003 ("Republic of Armenia Criminal Code") [ID 23824]

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19.06.2003 - Source: Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe

New Criminal Code provides imprisonment for up to three years for libel; up to two years of imprisonment for an insult of a representative of authority ("OSCE raises concern about libel and slander provisions in new Armenian Criminal Code") [#13861],  [ID 2938]

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28.05.2003 - Source: Amnesty International

Perpetuation of death penalty in a few cases ("Annual Report 2003") [#12997],  [ID 2939]

"Das Parlament beriet das neue Strafgesetzbuch im Juni in erster und im Dezember in zweiter Lesung. Das neue Gesetzbuch entkriminalisiert einvernehmliche homosexuelle Beziehungen zwischen Erwachsenen. Obwohl sich Armenien gegenüber dem Europarat verpflichtet hatte, die Todesstrafe bis zum 25. Januar 2002 abzuschaffen, sahen die neuen Rechtsvorschriften die Möglichkeit der Verhängung von Todesurteilen für Mord in besonders schweren Fällen, Vergewaltigung von minderjährigen Mädchen sowie terroristische Handlungen weiterhin vor, sofern diese vor Inkrafttreten des Gesetzbuches begangen worden sind. Vermutlich stand die Entscheidung zur Beibehaltung der Todesstrafe mit einem Gerichtsverfahren in Zusammenhang, das gegen fünf Personen eröffnet worden war, die wegen des bewaffneten Anschlags auf das armenische Parlamentsgebäude im Jahr 1999 unter Anklage standen. Bei dem Anschlag waren acht Menschen, unter ihnen der Ministerpräsident des Landes und der Sprecher des Parlaments, getötet worden."

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