'National penalties - genocide' in document 'Azerbaijan - Criminal Code'

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RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

General provision

SECTION II
CRIME

CHAPTER 3
CONCEPT OF THE CRIME AND CLASSIFICATION OF CRIMES

Article 15. Classification of crimes

15.5 Especially serious crime shall be deliberate actions for committing of which punishment provided by the present Code, shall be imprisonment for the term of twelve years or more strict punishment.

ESPECIAL PART

SECTION VII
CRIMES AGAINST PEACE AND SECURITY OF HUMANTY

CHAPTER 16
CRIMES AGAINST PEACE AND SECURITY OF HUMANTY

Article 103. Genocide

Actions, directed on full or partial destruction of national, ethnic, racial or religious groups by means of killing members of this group, causing serious harm to their health or serious harm to their mental faculties, creations of the vital conditions designed for full or partial physical destruction of members of this group, realization of the actions directed on prevention of birth rate inside group, compulsory transfer of children belonging to one group, to another
shall be punished by imprisonment for the term of from ten till fifteen years or life imprisonment.

ESPECIAL PART

SECTION VII
CRIMES AGAINST PEACE AND SECURITY OF HUMANTY

CHAPTER 16
CRIMES AGAINST PEACE AND SECURITY OF HUMANTY

Article 104. Solicitation to commitment of a genocide

Direct and obvious solicitation to commitment of any acts provided by article 103 of the present Code shall be punished by imprisonment for the term from five up to ten years.