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Structural division: BOOK I › CHAPTER II › Sub-section II
Article 18 — Other Crimes Committed Outside Ethiopia .
Revised Criminal Code (English)
Article text
(1) This Code shall also apply to any person who has committed a crime outside Ethiopia against an Ethiopian national or to any Ethiopian national who has committed outside Ethiopia a crime .of another kind than those specified in the foregoing Articles, if the criminal was not tried in the foreign country for the crime, provided that:
(a) the act to be tried is prohibited by the law of the State where it was committed and by Ethiopian law; and
(b) it is of sufficient gravity under the latter law to justify extradition.
(2) In the case of all other crimes committed outside Ethiopia by a foreign national, the criminal shall, save as otherwise expressly provided, failing extradition, be prosecuted and tried only if the crime is punishable under Ethiopian law with death or with rigorous imprisonment for not less than ten years.
Article 6
Exception: Application of the More Favourable Law.