A March 2020 amendment recast the highest drug-supply and import tiers with a fifteen-year prison term and a fine, reserving life imprisonment or death for cases without mitigating circumstances.[1] The Supreme Court’s 2025 guidance expressly barred life or death where mitigation existed and explained further sentencing reductions for specified cooperation circumstances.[2]
Listed for context. No score change is recorded for Abkhazia here.
References
- Abkhazia Supreme Court — Criminal CodeArticles 54, 79–80, 223–224.1, 228–229; amendments through August 2023; 2009 and 2012 drug provisions; capital-tier commencement note 1 March 2020
- Abkhazia Supreme Court — guidance on drug offencesPlenum decision 14 of 17 October 2025, Bulletin 1/2026, printed pages 83–91; paragraphs 3, 12–16, 23, 26–28
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