Forced Marriage and Family Coercion

1. Violence, regular insult, blackmail, humiliation by one family member against another family member, which has resulted in physical pain or anguish and which has not entailed the consequences provided for by Articles 117, 1 18 or 120 of this Code, –

shall be punished by community service from 80 to 150 hours or imprisonment for a term of up to two years, with or without the restriction of the rights regarding weapons.

2. The same act committed:

a) knowingly against a minor, a helpless person, a person with disability or a pregnant woman;

b) in the presence of a minor against his/her family member;

c) against two or more persons;

d) by a group of persons;

e) repeatedly, –

shall be punished by community service from 200 to 400 hours or imprisonment for a term of one to three years, with or without the restriction of the rights regarding weapons.

The consolidated official source is listed in the source section at the end of this guide.

1. Intentional infliction of serious harm to health, i.e. bodily injury that is dangerous for life or which has caused the loss of eyesight, hearing, speech or any organ or its function, mental disorder, interruption of pregnancy, permanent disfigurement of the face or other such injury that is dangerous for life and causes permanent loss of general working ability by at least one third, or complete loss of professional working ability knowingly, –

shall be punished by imprisonment for a term of four to seven years, with or without the restriction of the rights regarding weapons.

2. An act provided for by paragraph 1 of this article, which has caused the loss of life, –

shall be punished by imprisonment for a term of five to eight years, with or without the restriction of the rights regarding weapons.

3. An act provided for by paragraph 1 of this article, committed:

a) in connection with the official activities or performance of public duties of a victim or his/her close relative;

b) with regard to hostage- taking;

c) by the means that intentionally endanger the life or health of others;

d) with the aim of concealing any other crime or facilitating its commission;

e) against a family member;

f) by an offender knowingly on a pregnant woman;

g) by an offender knowingly on a minor, a helpless person or a person with a disability;

h) with hooligan motives;

i) due to race, religion, national or ethnic intolerance;

j) due to intolerance for equality of women with men;

k) by a group of persons;

l) against two or more persons;

m) with an extreme cruelty;

n) for mercenary purposes or by contract;

o) with the aim of transplanting or otherwise using an organ, part of an organ or a tissue of a victim’ s body;

p) repeatedly (except for murders under Articles 110-114 of this Code);

q) by a person who had previously committed a murder under Article 108 or 109 of this Code, –

shall be punished by imprisonment for a term of nine to thirteen years, with or without the restriction of the rights regarding weapons.

4. An act provided for by paragraph 3 of this article, which has caused the loss of life, –

shall be punished by imprisonment for a term of ten to fourteen years, with or without the restriction of the rights regarding weapons.

The consolidated official source is listed in the source section at the end of this guide.

1. Intentional infliction of less serious harm to health that is not dangerous for life and has not entailed a consequence provided for by Article 117 of this Code but which is related to a long-term deterioration of health or to a stable and less than one-third loss of general working ability, –

shall be punished by corrective labour for a term of up to 18 months or house arrest for a term of six months to two years, or by imprisonment for a term of two to four years, with or without the restriction of the rights regarding weapons.

2. Intentional infliction of less serious harm to health committed under the aggravating circumstances provided for by Article 117(3) of this Code, or by a person who had previously inflicted intentionally a serious health to health or committed an act provided for in Article 108 or 109 of this Code, –

shall be punished by imprisonment for a term of four to six years, with or without the restriction of the rights regarding weapons.

3. An act provided for in paragraph 2 of this article, which has caused the loss of life, –

shall be punished by imprisonment for a term of five to eight years, with or without the restriction of the rights regarding weapons.

The consolidated official source is listed in the source section at the end of this guide.

1. Intentional infliction of minor harm to health, which has entailed a short-term deterioration of health or an insignificant or unstable loss of general working ability, –

shall be punished by a fine or corrective labour for a term of up to six months, or house arrest for a term of six months to two years, or imprisonment for a term of one to three years, with or without restriction of the rights regarding weapons.

2. Intentional infliction of minor harm to health committed under the aggravating circumstances provided for by Article 117(3) of this Code, or by a person who had previously inflicted intentionally serious harm to health, less serious harm to health or committed an act provided for in Article 108 or 109 of this Code, –

shall be punished by imprisonment for a term of three to five years, with or without restriction of the rights regarding weapons.

The consolidated official source is listed in the source section at the end of this guide.

1. Forced marriage (including an unregistered marriage), –

shall be punished by community service for two hundred to four hundred hours or by imprisonment for up to two years, with or without restriction of the rights regarding weapons.

2. The same act committed:

a) knowingly against a minor;

b) repeatedly, –

shall be punished by imprisonment for a term of two to four years, with or without restriction of the rights regarding weapons.

The consolidated official source is listed in the source section at the end of this guide.

1. Illegal restriction of a person’s freedom to act, i.e. coercing him/her physically or mentally to perform or not to perform an action, performance of or abstaining from performance of which is his/her right, or to make him/her experience an influence against his/her own will, –

shall be punished by a fine, or corrective labour for a term of up to one year or house arrest for a term of six months to two years, or imprisonment for a term of up to one year, with or without restriction of the rights regarding weapons.

2. The same act committed:

a) knowingly by an offender against a minor, a person in a helpless condition, a person with disability or a pregnant woman;

b) by a group of persons;

c) repeatedly, –

shall be punished by corrective labour for a term of up to two years, or imprisonment for a term of up to eighteen months, with or without restriction of the rights regarding weapons.

The consolidated official source is listed in the source section at the end of this guide.