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In 1998, consensual sex between same-sex couples became lawful [R1.1].
In late 1997, under the revised criminal code same-sex relations between consenting adults was no longer a criminal offence [R1.2].
Article 121 - Violent actions of sexual character
1) Homosexuality, sexual contact between women and other acts of sexual character, involving the usage of violence or a threat of using it to a suffered person (woman) or to other people or using an ineffectual condition of a suffered person (woman), is punished by depriving the liberty for the term from 3 to 5 years.
2) The same act committed:
a. by a group of people, by a group of people with entering a preliminary collusion, or by an organized group;
b. involving a threat of assassination, and also committed with an extraordinary cruelty for the suffered person (woman) or for other people;
c. which caused infecting the sufferer with sexual diseases;
d. committed repeatedly or by a person who previously has committed violent acts of sexual character (rape);
e. of a person who is wittingly juvenile,
is punished by depriving the liberty for the term from 5 to 10 years.
3) The acts stipulated by parts 1 and 2 of this article, if they:
a. caused the death of the person by imprudence;
b. caused by imprudence the infliction of a grievous healthily harm of the suffered person ( woman), infecting him (her) with AIDS and other heavy consequences;
c. committed in regard to a person who is wittingly has not reach 14 years of age,
is punished by depriving the liberty for the term from 8 to 15 years.
Article 122 - Sexual intercourse and other actions of sexual character with a person less than 16 years of age
1) Sexual contact, homosexuality, sexual contact between women and other acts of sexual character with a person who is wittingly has not reached 16 years of age, is punished by limiting the liberty for the term up to 3 years, or by arrest up to 6
months, or by depriving the liberty for the term up to 5 years.
Article 123 - Compulsion to sexual contact, homosexuality, sexual contact between women and to other acts of sexual character
1) Compulsion a person to sexual contact, homosexuality, sexual contact between woman and to other acts of sexual character involving the usage of blackmail, threat of destruction, breaking or seizure of a property or using material or other form of
dependence of a victim, is punished by the fine in the volume from 200 to 500 of the monthly calculating indexes or in the volume of the salary or another income of the sentenced person for the period from 2 to 5 months, or by correctional works for the period up to 2 years, or by arrest for the term within 6 months, or by depriving the liberty for the term of up to 2 years.
Article 124 - Dissolute (licentious) actions with juveniles
Committing dissolute (licentious) acts without violence in regard to a person who is wittingly has not reached 14 years of age, is punished by limiting the liberty for the term up to 4 years or depriving the liberty for the same period of time [R1.3]. |
