'National penalties - national proceedings' in document 'Georgia - Law amending Criminal Code'

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RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

Article 1. The Criminal Code of Georgia ("saqartvelos sakanonmdeblo macne"1) No. 41(48), 1999) shall be amended as follows:

2. Paragraphs 2 and 3 of Article 143 shall be drafted as follows:

"2. The same act committed:
a) Repeatedly
b) With coercion, blackmail or deceit
c) Against two or more minors
d) With taking abroad of the aggravated party
e) By violence dangerous to life or health or the threat of such violence
f) By abusing an official power;
g) Knowingly against the person in grave condition or a person materially or otherwise dependant upon the perpetrator
Shall be punished by the deprivation of liberty for the period from twelve to seventeen years.

3. Acts envisaged by paragraph 1 and 2 of this article:
a) Committed by the organized group
b) Which resulted in deprivation of life of the minor or other grave consequence.

Shall be punished by the deprivation of liberty for the period from fifteen years to life imprisonment."

Article 1. The Criminal Code of Georgia ("saqartvelos sakanonmdeblo macne"1) No. 41(48), 1999) shall be amended as follows:

5. Article 408 shall be drafted as follows:
”Article 408. Crimes against Humanity
Crime against humanity means any of the following acts when committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population, expressed in murder, massive extermination, serious injury to body or health, deportation, forced confinement, torture, rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced pregnancy, enforced sterilization, persecution against any identifiable group on political, racial, national, ethnic, cultural, religious, gender or other grounds, the crime of apartheid, other inhumane acts of a similar character intentionally causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or to mental or physical health,
Shall be punishable by imprisonment for the period from eight to twenty years or life imprisonment.

Article 1. The Criminal Code of Georgia ("saqartvelos sakanonmdeblo macne"1) No. 41(48), 1999) shall be amended as follows:

7. Article 411:

b) Subparagraph ”j” of paragraph 1 of article 411 shall be drafted as follows:

”j) Attack on property of hostile party, including any historic monument, pieces of art, a sacred place as on the part of the cultural heritage of peoples, which resulted in destruction and appropriation of property, provided not justified by military necessity; Shall be punished by the imprisonment for a period from ten to fifteen years.”