Russian Federation

The Criminal Code of the Russian Federation

Special Part

Section X. Crimes Against State Power

Chapter 31. Crimes Against the Administration of Justice

Article 302. Compulsion to Give Evidence

1. Compulsion to give evidence used with regard to a subject, defendant, victim, or witness, or coercion of an expert, a specialist to make a report or to give evidence through the application of threats, blackmail, or other illegal actions, by an investigator or a person conducting inquests, as well as by other person with the knowledge or a tacit consent of the investigator or the person conducting inquests,
shall be punishable by deprivation of liberty for a term of up to three years.

2. The same act, joined with the use of violence, mockery, or torture, shall be punishable by deprivation of liberty for term of two to eight years .

Keywords

Fair trial standards
Offences against administration of justice
Rights during investigation - not to be subjected to any form of coercion, duress or threat, to torture or to any other form of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
National penalties - offences against the administration of justice
National penalties - maximum penalty



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