Document Type : Research/Original/Regular Article

Author

• Abbas Zera'at

Abstract

Forgivable crimes are of complicated matters in Iranian criminal law because there is neither a credible criterion for their recognition nor a specific penal policy in this regard.
According to the article 23 of the Islamic Penal Code, the forgiveness must be non-conditional, could not be revoked and divided, and could be assigned to another. However, there are issues to be examined; e.g., the nature of the forgiveness, the holders of the right, the impact of the right on prosecution, investigation and trial (before or after the conviction and enforcement of the sentences), the volition of the accused or convicted, its divisibility in case of multiple perpetrators, and multiplicity of crimes.

Keywords

• Forgiveness
• Forgivable crimes
• nolle prosequi
• leaving the trial
• nature of the forgiveness
• temporal scope of forgiveness

Main Subjects

• Criminal Law
• General criminal law