Chapter 4 Punishment
Section 1 General Provisions
Article 37
(1) Punishments shall be:
1a) (Renumbered from Item 1 - SG No. 50/1995) imprisonment;
Chapter 4 Punishment
Section 1 General Provisions
Article 39
(1) (Amended, SG No. 28/1982, SG No. 89/1986) Imprisonment may be from three months to twenty years.
(2) (Supplemented, SG No. 95/1975, SG No. 28/1982, repealed, renumbered from Paragraph 3, amended, SG No. 89/1986, supplemented, SG No. 50/1995, amended, SG No. 153/1998)
By way of exception, the punishment by imprisonment may be inflicted for a term of thirty years in the event of substitution of life imprisonment in case of multiple crimes as per Articles 24 and 27, paragraph (1) hereof, as well as for certain particularly grave intentional crimes in the cases specially stipulated for in the Special Part hereof.
Special Part
Chapter 1 Crimes Against the Republic
Section 4 Other Crimes
Article 108a
(1) (Amended, SG No. 33/2011, effective 27.05.2011, supplemented, SG No. 74/2015) Anyone who commits a crime under Articles 115, 128, 142, 143, 143a, 216(1) and (5), 319b - 319d, 326, 330, 333, 334, 337, 339, 340, 341a, 341b, 344, 347(1), 348, 349, 350, 352(1), (2) and (3), 354, 356f or 356h for the purpose of causing disturbance/fear among the population or threatening/forcing a competent authority, a member of the public or a representative of a foreign state or international organization to perform or omit part of his/her duties, shall be punishable for terrorism by imprisonment from five to fifteen years; and where death has been caused, the punishment shall be imprisonment from fifteen to thirty years, life imprisonment or life imprisonment without a chance of commuting.
Chapter 13 Crimes Against Peace and Humanity
Section 3 Liquidation of Groups of the Population (Genocide) and Apartheid
Article 417
A person who with the aim of establishing or maintaining domination or systematic oppression of one racial group of people over another racial group of people:
a) causes death or severe bodily injury to one or more persons of such a group of people, or
b) imposes living conditions of such a nature as to cause complete or partial physical liquidation of a racial group of people,
(Amended, SG No. 153/1998) shall be punished for apartheid by imprisonment for a term of from ten up to twenty years or by life imprisonment without a chance of commuting.
1. Subject to article 110, the Court may impose one of the following penalties on a person convicted of a crime referred to in article 5 of this Statute:
(a) Imprisonment for a specified number of years, which may not exceed a maximum of 30 years; or
(b) A term of life imprisonment when justified by the extreme gravity of the crime and the individual circumstances of the convicted person.
2. In addition to imprisonment, the Court may order:
(a) A fine under the criteria provided for in the Rules of Procedure and Evidence;
(b) A forfeiture of proceeds, property and assets derived directly or indirectly from that crime, without prejudice to the rights of bona fide third parties.