General Part

Chapter II
Criminal Offences

Section 7. Classification of Criminal Offences

(5) An especially serious crime is an intentional offence for which this Law provides for deprivation of liberty for a term exceeding eight years or life imprisonment.

General Part

Chapter IV
Punishment

Section 38. Deprivation of Liberty

(3) In cases specifically provided for in this Law, deprivation of liberty may be determined for life (life imprisonment).

Special Part

Chapter IX
Crimes against Humanity and Peace, War Crimes and Genocide

Section 71. Genocide

For a person who commits genocide, that is, commits intentional acts for purposes of the destruction in whole or in part of any group of persons identifiable as such by nationality, ethnic origin, race, or a defined religion, by killing members of the group, inflicting upon them physical injuries hazardous to life or health or causing them to become mentally ill, intentionally causing conditions of life for such people as result in their physical destruction in whole or in part, utilising measures the purpose of which is to prevent the birth of children in such group, or transferring children on a compulsory basis from one group of persons into another,
the applicable punishment is life imprisonment or deprivation of liberty for a term of not less than three and not exceeding twenty years.

Special Part

Chapter IX
Crimes against Humanity and Peace, War Crimes and Genocide

Section 71.2 Crimes against Humanity

For a person who commits crime against humanity, that is, for an activity which is performed as a part of vast or systematic offensive to civilians and which has been expressed as homicide, extermination, enslavement, deportation or forced movement, unlawful deprivation or limitation of liberty, torture, rape, involvement of a person into sexual slavery, compelling the engaging in prostitution, forced fertilisation or sterilisation, or sexual violence of similar degree of severity, apartheid, persecution of any group of people or union on the basis of political, racial, national, ethnical, cultural, religious or gender affiliation or other reasons which have been recognised as inadmissible in the international law, in relation to any activity indicated in this Section or genocide, or war crime or other activity provided for in the international law binding upon the Republic of Latvia, which causes serious physical or mental suffering,
the applicable punishment is life imprisonment or deprivation of liberty for a term of not less than three and not exceeding twenty years.

Special Part

Chapter IX
Crimes against Humanity and Peace, War Crimes and Genocide

Section 72. Crimes against Peace

For a person who commits crimes against peace, that is, commits planning, preparation triggering of, participation in military aggression, commits conducting of a war of aggression in violation of international agreements binding upon the Republic of Latvia, commits participation in a conspiracy for the purpose of committing crimes mentioned in this Section,
the applicable punishment is life imprisonment or deprivation of liberty for a term of not less than three and not exceeding twenty years.