The Framework of Military-Service Offences
The legal risks connected with conscription and military service in Georgia are defined by four norms of the Criminal Code: evasion of service by a person subject to the draft (Article 356), evasion of mobilization reserve service (Article 357), evasion of a mobilization call-up (Article 358), and desertion (Article 389). The task of this page is a precise map: which conduct falls under which norm, what sanctions are provided, and where the real points of defence lie. First, the three evasion norms are addressed to different subjects: Article 356 concerns the person subject to the draft, Article 357 the person bound by a reserve-service duty, Article 358 the person called up by mobilization, and Article 389 the serviceman already in service. The very first question the defence therefore asks is the delimitation of the subjective circle: whether the person is under any duty at all under this or that norm. Second, every evasion episode rests on a factual trail — the chronology of the summons, medical conclusions, correspondence with the military commissariat — and that trail is the defence's raw material.