Article 23 shall, since nulla poena is a principle regarding penalties, be read together with Part 7 of the Rome Statute. Article 77(1) of the Rome Statute states the penalties available to the Court. These are imprisonment, either for a maximum of 30 years or for life, a fine or a forfeiture of proceeds, property and assets derived either directly or indirectly from the crime at hand. Factors that shall be taken into consideration when determining the sentence are stated in Article 78.It may be noted that the drafters of the Rome statute did not chose to regulate the penalties available to the court in the same manner as is the case in the ICTY statute. According to Article 24 of that statute, the ICTY shall, when determining sentences, consider the general practice regarding prison sentences in the former Yugoslavia. The ICTY has however, despite the fact that the national penal code of Yugoslavia did only allow sentences of a maximum of 20 years of imprisonment, concluded that it may sentence convicted persons to life imprisonment (see, for example,