7.2 Adequacy of punishment 7.2.1 Findings of serious ill-treatment should be classified in accordance with the specifically enacted legislation and should lead to appropriate criminal, administrative, and disciplinary penalties provided by law, which are proportionate to the gravity of the ill-treatment involved. 7.2.2 Amnesties, pardons, other measures of clemency or impediments which preclude or indicate unwillingness to provide prompt and fair prosecution and punishment of perpetrators, including full exemption from criminal or other responsibility due to favourable provisions of legislation on disclosure or repentance, frustrate the aims of effective investigation and combating impunity and should therefore be avoided. Effective investigation of ill-treatment – Guidelines ► Page 16