Article 50 – Fixed term imprisonment

2. Fixed term imprisonment shall be imposed for a term of six months to twenty years, except as provided for by Article 59 of this Code.


Article 51 – Life imprisonment

1. Life imprisonment may be imposed only for particularly serious crimes.

2. Life imprisonment shall not be imposed on persons who have attained the 60 years of age by the time the judgment is delivered.

Article 404 – Planning, preparation, commencement or execution of an act of aggression

1. The planning or preparation of an act of aggression, –

shall be punished by imprisonment for a term of seven to fifteen years.

2. The commencement or execution of an act of progression, –

shall be punished by imprisonment for a term of fifteen to twenty years or by life imprisonment.

Note:

1. For the act provided for by this article, a person who, due to his/her position, is able to exercise efficient control or management over the state political or military actions, shall incur criminal liability.

2. For the purposes of this Chapter, an ‘act of aggression’ shall mean the use of the armed forces of the State against another state’s sovereignty, territorial integrity or political independence, or in any other manner, which contradicts the Charter of the United Nations.

3. A person shall incur criminal liability for planning, preparation, commencement or execution of such an act of aggression which, in its nature, gravity and extent, clearly violates the Charter of the United Nations.
 

Article 405 – Calling for planning, preparation, commencement or execution of an act of aggression

1. Calling for planning, preparation, commencement or execution of an act of aggression, –

shall be punished by a fine or imprisonment for up to three years.

2. The same act committed using mass media or by a public political official, –

shall be punished by a fine or imprisonment for a term of two to five years, with deprivation of the right to carry out activities for up to three years.

Article 408 – Crime against Humanity

Crime against humanity, i.e. any act committed in the form of a large-scale or systematic assaults on civilian population or persons, manifested in murder, mass extermination, serious health injury, deportation, illegal imprisonment, torture, sexual assault, sexual slavery, coercion of prostitution, forced pregnancy and sterilisation, persecution of a group of persons based on political, racial, national, ethnic, cultural, religious, sexual and other signs, apartheid and other inhuman treatment, which substantially impair the physical and/or mental condition of a person, –

shall be punished by imprisonment for a term of twelve to twenty years or by life imprisonment.