GENERAL PART

Chapter II
CRIME

Article 16. Classification of Crimes

(6) Exceptionally serious crimes are considered crimes committed with intent for which criminal law provides for life imprisonment.

GENERAL PART

Chapter VII
CRIMINAL PUNISHMENT

Article 62. Categories of Punishments Applicable to Individuals

(2) Imprisonment and life imprisonment shall be applied only as main punishments.

GENERAL PART

Chapter VII
CRIMINAL PUNISHMENT

Article 71. Life Imprisonment

(1) Life imprisonment is the deprivation of the liberty of the convict for the entire rest of his/her life.

(2) Life imprisonment shall be set only for exceptionally serious crimes.

(3) Life imprisonment may not be applied to women and juveniles.

SPECIAL PART

Chapter I
CRIMES AGAINST THE PEACE AND SECURITY OF HUMANITY, WAR CRIMES

Article 135. Genocide

Commission aimed at the destruction, in whole or in part, of a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group of any of the following acts :
a) killing members of this group ;
b) causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group ;
c) imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group ;
d) trafficking in children of the respective group ;
e) deliberate exposure of the group to living conditions leading to its physical destruction in whole or in part
shall be punished by imprisonment for 16 to 20 years or by life imprisonment.

SPECIAL PART

Chapter I
CRIMES AGAINST THE PEACE AND SECURITY OF HUMANITY, WAR CRIMES

Article 139. Planning, Preparation, Unleashing or Waging War

(1) Planning, preparing or unleashing a war shall be punished by imprisonment for 8 to 15 years.

(2) Waging a war shall be punished by imprisonment for 10 to 20 years or by life imprisonment.

SPECIAL PART

Chapter I
CRIMES AGAINST THE PEACE AND SECURITY OF HUMANITY, WAR CRIMES

Article 142. Attack on a Person Availing of International Protection

(1) The commission of a violent attack on the office, house, or means of transport of a person availing him or herself of international protection, provided that such an act may pose a threat to the life, health or freedom of the given person shall be punished by imprisonment for 5 to 10 years.

(2) Kidnapping or otherwise attacking a person availing him or herself of international protection or depriving them of their freedom shall be punished by imprisonment for 7 to 15 years.

(3) The murder of a person availing him or herself of international protection shall be punished by imprisonment for 16 to 20 years or by life imprisonment.

(4) Actions specified in par. (1) or (2) committed for the purpose of unleashing war or an international conflict shall be punished by imprisonment for 8 to 15 years or by life imprisonment.

(5) The threat of committing an action provided in par. (1), (2), (3) or (4), if the danger that such a threat could be accomplished existed, shall be punished by imprisonment for 3 to 7 years.

SPECIAL PART

Chapter I
CRIMES AGAINST THE PEACE AND SECURITY OF HUMANITY, WAR CRIMES

Article 143. Application of Prohibited Means and Methods of Waging War

(1) The application during an armed conflict or military action of means and methods of waging war prohibited by the international treaties to which the Republic of Moldova is a party shall be punished by imprisonment for 12 to 20 years.

(2) The use of weapons of mass-destruction prohibited by the international treaties to which the Republic of Moldova is a party shall be punished by imprisonment for 16 to 20 years or by life imprisonment.