'Prohibited weapons' in document 'Tajikistan - Criminal Code'

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RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

GENERAL PART

SECTION XV. CRIME AGAINST THE PEACE AND SAFETY OF MANKIND

CHAPTER 34 Crime Against the Peace and Safety of Mankind

Article 397. Production or Distribution of Mass Destruction Weapons

Producing, purchasing, keeping, transporting or selling nuclear, neutron, chemical, biological (bacteriological), climatic or other kind of mass destruction weapons prohibited by international treaty, as well as transferring initial or special fissionable materials, technologies which may be used for creating mass destruction weapons to any state which does not have nuclear weapons or transferring other kinds of mass destruction weapons to anybody or components which are necessary for producing them, is punishable by imprisonment for a period of 12 to 20 years.

GENERAL PART

SECTION XV. CRIME AGAINST THE PEACE AND SAFETY OF MANKIND

CHAPTER 34 Crime Against the Peace and Safety of Mankind

Article 399. Biocide

Using of nuclear, neutron, chemical, biological (bacteriological), climatic or other kind of mass destruction weapons with the intent of destruction of people and environment is punishable by imprisonment for a period of 15 to 20 years, or death penalty.

GENERAL PART

SECTION XV. CRIME AGAINST THE PEACE AND SAFETY OF MANKIND

CHAPTER 34 Crime Against the Peace and Safety of Mankind

Article 405. Other Violations of Norms of International Humanitarian Law

If there are no elements of crimes specified in Articles 403 and 404 of the present Code, pillage, that
is seizure or taking of clothes from wounded or dead men in a battle situation as well as taking of citizen’s property left in the zone of battle operations, using of the mentioned persons for covering troops or objectives from battle operations, using of means, materials and mass destruction weapons prohibited by international treaty, is punishable by imprisonment for a period of 10 to 20 years.