Article 16 — Effect of Foreign Sentences.

(1) Where a -criminal who is subject to Ethiopia's principal jurisdiction (Arts. 11,13,14 (1) and 15 (2)) haS been sentenced in a foreign country, he may be tried and sentenced again on the same charge in Ethiopia, H he is found in Ethiopia or was extradited to it. (2) His discharge or acquittal in a foreign country shall be no bar to a fresh trial or sentence being passed in Ethiopia in accordance with this Code. (3) Where by reason of the crime committed, the criminal has already been convicted In a foreign country and has undergone the whole or part of the punishment, the Court shall deduct the punishment already undergone from the new sentence to be passed.