Bulgaria

Criminal Code

BULGARIA – CRIMINAL CODE

SPECIAL PART

Chapter Fourteen - CRIMES AGAINST PEACE AND HUMANITY

Section II - Crimes Against the Laws and Customs of Waging War

Article 411

A person who in violation of the rules of international law for waging war:

a) perpetrates or orders to be perpetrated with regard to prisoners of war murder, tortures or inhuman treatment, including biological experiments or causes or orders grave sufferings, mutilation or other impairments of health to be inflicted on such persons;

b) compels a prisoner of war to serve in the armed forces of the enemy state , or

c) deprives a prisoner of war of the right to be tried by a regular court and under a regular procedure, shall be punished by deprivation of liberty for a term of from five up to twenty years or by life imprisonment without substitution.

Keywords

National penalties - war crimes
National penalties - maximum penalty
National penalties - life imprisonment



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