GENERAL PART

SECTION FOUR. PENALTY AND ITS PURPOSE

CHAPTER 10. NOTION, PURPOSES AND TYPES OF PENALTY

Article 50. Imprisonment

Imprisonment shall be isolation of convicted through committing him to a colony of execution of penalty or a prison. Imprisonment shall be imposed for a term from six months to twenty years.

Imprisonment for up to twenty-five years may be imposed by joinder of penalties in the cases envisaged by Article 60 of this Code.

Imprisonment for men aged above sixty and women may not exceed three quarters of a maximum term of imprisonment envisaged by an appropriate Article of The Special Part of this Code. (As amended by the Law of 29.08.2001).

Penalty of imprisonment sentence for men shall be served:
a. for convicted for imprisonment for not socially dangerous, or less serious, or reckless crimes Ð in settled colonies;
b. for first-convicted for imprisonment for intentional less serious and serious crimes Ð in colonies of general security;
c. for convicted for specially serious crimes or previously served penalty of imprisonment for intentional crime and reconvicted for commission of an intentional crime Ð in colonies of high security;
d. for special dangerous recidivists Ð in colonies of high security. Persons, for whom capital punishment was commutated to imprisonment by an act of pardon, shall serve their sentence in colonies of high security as well.

Imprisonment sentence for women shall be served:
a. for specially serious crimes and after being recognized as special dangerous recidivists Ð in colonies of high security;
b. for not socially dangerous, or less serious, or reckless crimes Ð in settled colonies;
c. for other types of crimes Ð in colonies of general security.
(Paragraphs 5 and 6 Ð as amended by the Laws of 27.12.1996 and 29.08.2001)

Imprisonment by confinement in prison may be imposed on a part of the term of penalty not exceeding five years:
a. on special dangerous recidivists;
b. persons committed serious or especially serious crimes and convicted thereof for imprisonment for more than five years.

SPECIAL PART

SECTION TWO. CRIMES AGAINST PEACE AND SECURITY

CHAPTER 8. CRIMES AGAINST PEACE AND HUMANITY

Article 150. Propaganda of War

Propaganda of war, that is, any form of dissemination of views, ideas or calls with the purpose of making aggression of one country against another one –
shall be punished with imprisonment from five to ten years.
(As amended by Law of 29.08.2001.)

Article 151. Aggression

Planning or preparation of aggressive war or engagement in conspiracy in order to execute the said actions –
shall be punished with imprisonment from ten to fifteen years.
(As amended by Law of 29.08.2001.)

The commencement or conduct of aggressive war –
shall be punished with imprisonment from fifteen to twenty years, or capital punishment.
(As amended by Law of 29.08.2001.)


Article 152. Breach of Laws and Customs of War

Breach of laws and customs of war by tormenting, physical destruction of civilian population or prisoners of war, forced relocation of civilian population for forced labor or with other purposes, application of weapons prohibited under international law, purposeless destruction of cities and populated localities, despoilment of property, and giving orders to carry out such actions –
shall be punished with imprisonment from ten to twenty years.
(As amended by Laws of 29.08.1998 and 29.08.2001.)


Article 153. Genocide

Genocide, that is, intentional creation of such living conditions that lead to physical destruction of a group of individuals, in full or in part, on the basis of its ethnic origin, race, or religion, their physical destruction in full or in part, forced reduction of childbirths, or transfer of children from one of these human groups to another, and giving orders to carry out such acts –
shall be punished with imprisonment from ten to twenty years, or capital punishment.
(As amended by Law of 29.08.2001.)