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General Part
Section 2.
Crime.
Chapter 3.
The notion and types of crime.
Article 19. Types of crime.
5. Particularly grave crimes are those willful acts for which this Code envisages a maximal imprisonment for more than ten years or for life .
General Part
Section 3.
Punishment.
Chapter 9.
Notion of punishment, purposes and types.
Article 60. Life sentence.
1. Life sentence is isolation of the convict in a form of keeping him imprisoned in a corrective institution without time-limit, which in cases envisaged in this Code can be assigned for particularly grave crimes.
2. Persons under 18 years of age at the time of committal of the crime, and women pregnant at the time of committal of the crime or sentencing, can not be sentenced to life sentence.
General Part
Section 3.
Punishment.
Chapter 10.
Assignment of punishment.
Article 66. Assignment of punishment by accumulation of crimes.
4. If the aggregate of crimes involves grave and particularly grave crimes, then the final punishment is assigned by complete or partial summation of punishments. The final punishment can not exceed 15 years of imprisonment. If one of the accomplices is sentenced to life, then the final basic punishment is decided by absorption.
Special Part
Section 13.
Crimes against peace and human security
Chapter 33.
Crimes against peace and human security
Article 387. Application of prohibited methods of war.
1. Application of methods prohibited by international agreements in military actions or armed conflicts, is punished with imprisonment for the term of up to 15 years.
2. Application or testing of mass destruction weapons prohibited in international agreements is punished with imprisonment from 10 to 15 years, or to life.
Special Part
Section 13.
Crimes against peace and human security
Chapter 33.
Crimes against peace and human security
Article 390. Serious breach of international humanitarian law during armed conflicts.
1.3) willfully inflicted serious sufferance or other actions threatening man’s physical or mental state, is punished with imprisonment for 8-15 years, or for life.
Special Part
Section 13.
Crimes against peace and human security
Chapter 33.
Crimes against peace and human security
Article 390. Serious breach of international humanitarian law during armed conflicts.
3.5) assault on a person who, obviously for the perpetrator, ceased immediate participation in military actions, is punished with imprisonment for 10-15 years, of for life.
Special Part
Section 13.
Crimes against peace and human security
Chapter 33.
Crimes against peace and human security
Article 392. Crimes against human security.
Deportation, illegal arrest, enslavement, mass and regular execution without trial, kidnapping followed by disappearance, torture or cruel treatment of civilians, due to racial, national, ethnic identity, political views and religion, is punished with imprisonment for 7-15 years or for life.
Special Part
Section 13.
Crimes against peace and human security
Chapter 33.
Crimes against peace and human security
Article 393. Genocide.
The actions aimed at the complete or partial extermination of national, ethnic, racial or religious groups by means of killing the members of this group , inflicting severe damage to their health , violently preventing them from childbearing , enforced hand-over of children , violent re-population, or physical elimination of the members of this group , are punished with imprisonment for the term of 13 to 15 years or with life sentence.