Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group

Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan - Criminal Code (EN) 1999

ESPECIAL PART

SECTION VII
CRIMES AGAINST PEACE AND SECURITY OF HUMANTY

CHAPTER 16
CRIMES AGAINST PEACE AND SECURITY OF HUMANTY

Article 103. Genocide

Actions, directed on full or partial destruction of national, ethnic, racial or religious groups by means of
causing serious harm to their health or serious harm to their mental faculties,

Azerbaijan - Criminal Code 1999 (amend 2018) (EN)

''Special part Section VII. Crimes against peace and security of humanity (3) Chapter 16. Crimes against peace and security of humanity Article 103. Genocide''

Actions, directed on full or partial destruction of national, ethnic, racial or religious
groups by means of killing members of this group, causing serious harm to their health or
serious harm to their mental faculties, creations of the vital conditions designed for full or
partial physical destruction of members of this group, realization of the actions directed
on prevention of birth rate inside group, compulsory transfer of children belonging to one
group, to another—
shall be punishable by imprisonment for the term of from fourteen up to twenty
years or life imprisonment.

Rome Statute

Article 6 Genocide

For the purpose of this Statute, ‘genocide’ means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;