Azerbaijan

Criminal Code of the Azerbaijan Republic

ESPECIAL PART

SECTION VII
CRIMES AGAINST PEACE AND SECURITY OF HUMANTY

CHAPTER 16
CRIMES AGAINST PEACE AND SECURITY OF HUMANTY

Article 111. Racial discrimination (apartheid)

111.0. The acts accomplished with a purpose of the organization and maintenance of superiority of one racial group for destroying of other racial group :

111.0.1. denying of a members right of racial group or groups on life and freedom, that is murder of members of racial group or groups, drawing of heavy harm to their health or serious harm to mental faculties, application to them of tortures or reference severe, brutal or humiliating advantage and punishments, as well as any arrest or illegal imprisonment ;
111.0.2. creation for racial group or groups of the living conditions designed for their full or partial physical destruction ;
111.0.3. realization of any legislative or other action with a purpose ,of hindrance to participation of racial group or groups in political, social, economic and cultural life of the country, to development of such group or groups by denying belonging to members of this group or groups of rights and freedom of a person, including a right to work, creation of trade unions, education, departure and entrance to the country, citizenship, a freedom to move and a choose of a residence, idea and word, associations and assemblies ;
111.0.4. implementation of any measures, including legislative, with the purpose of division of a population into racial groups by means of creation of reservoirs and ghetto, prohibitions of mixed marriages between various racial groups, forced take of ground areas belonging to racial group or groups or their members without their consent ;
111.0.5. operation of work of persons belonging to racial group or groups ;
111.0.6. prosecution of organizations and persons opposing apartheid, by means of deprivation of their right and freedom

shall be punished by imprisonment for the term from ten up to fifteen years or life imprisonment.

Keywords

Crimes against humanity
Apartheid - crimes against humanity
National penalties - crimes against humanity
National penalties - maximum penalty
National penalties - life imprisonment



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