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CRIMINAL CODE
(Official Gazette of RS, Nos. 85/2005, 88/2005, 107/2005)
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CHAPTER FOURTEEN
CRIMINAL OFFENCES AGAINST FREEDOMS AND RIGHTS OF MAN AND CITIZEN
Violation of Equality
Article 128
(1) Whoever denies or restricts the right of man and citizen guaranteed by the Constitution, laws or other legislation or general acts or ratified international treaties on grounds of nationality or ethnicity, race or religion or due to absence of such affiliation or difference in political or other conviction, sex, language, education, social status, social origin, property or other personal characteristic, or pursuant to such difference grants another privileges or benefits,
shall be punished with imprisonment up to three years.
(2) If the act specified in paragraph 1 of this Article is committed by an official in discharge of duty,
such person shall be punished with imprisonment of three months to five years.
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Violation of the Freedom of Religion and Performing Religious Service
Article 131
(1) Whoever prevents or restricts another’s freedom of religion or practising a religion, shall be punished with imprisonment up to one year.
(2) The penalty specified in paragraph 1 of this Article shall also be imposed on whoever prevents or hinders another in performing religious services.
(3) Whoever coerces another to express his religious conviction,
shall be punished with fine or imprisonment up to one year.
(4) An official who commits the offences specified in paragraphs 1 through 3 of this
Article,
shall be punished with imprisonment up to three years.
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Instigating National, Racial and Religious Hatred and Intolerance
Article 317
(1) Whoever instigates or exacerbates national, racial or religious hatred or intolerance among the peoples and ethnic communities living in Serbia, shall be punished by imprisonment of six months to five years.
(2) If the offence specified in paragraph 1 of this Article is committed by coercion, maltreatment, compromising security, exposure to derision of national, ethnic or religious symbols, damage to other persons, goods, desecration of monuments, memorials or graves, the offender shall be punished by imprisonment of one to eight years.
(3) Whoever commits the offence specified in paragraphs 1 and 2 of this Article by abuse of position or authority, or if these offences result in riots, violence or other grave consequences to co-existence of peoples, national minorities or ethnic groups living in Serbia,
shall be punished for the offence specified in paragraph 1 of this Article by
imprisonment of one to eight years, and for the offence specified in paragraph 2 of this Article by imprisonment of two to ten years.
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Genocide
Article 370
Whoever with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such, orders killing or causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group, or deliberately inflicts on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part, or imposes measures intended to prevent births within the group or forcibly transfers children of the group to another group or who with same intent commits one of the aforementioned acts,
shall be punished by minimum five years imprisonment or thirty to forty years' imprisonment.
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War Crimes against Civilian Population
Article 372
(1) Whoever in violation of international law at time of war armed conflict or occupation orders an attack on civilian population, settlement, particular civilians, persons incapacitated for combat or members or facilities of humanitarian organisations or peace mission; wanton attack without target selection harming civilian population or civilian buildings under special protection of international law; attack against military targets knowing that such attack would cause collateral damage among civilians or damage to civilian buildings that is obviously disproportionate with the military effect; ordering against civilian population inflicting of bodily injury, torture, inhumane treatment, biological, medical or other research experiments, or taking of tissue or organs for transplantation or performing other acts causing harm to health or inflicting great suffering or who orders deportation or relocation or forced change of nationality or religion; forcing to prostitution or rape; applying intimidation and terror measures, taking of hostages, collective punishment, unlawful depriving of freedom and detention; depriving of the rights to a fair and impartial trial; proclaiming the rights and acts of enemy nationals prohibited, suspended or non-allowed in court proceedings; compelling into service of a hostile power or its intelligenceor administration services; compelling to military service persons under seventeen years of age; forced labour; starving of population; unlawful seizure, appropriation or destruction of property not justified by military necessity; taking unlawful and disproportionate contributions and requisitions; devaluing of local currency or unlawful issuing of currency, or whoever commits any of the above offences, shall be punished by imprisonment of minimum five years.
(2) The penalty specified in paragraph 1 of this Article shall be imposed to whoever, in violation of international law at time of war, armed conflict or occupation, orders: attack on facilities particularly protected under international law and installations and facilities with dangerous power such as dams, embankments and nuclear power plants; strikes against civilian facilities under special protection of international law, undefended places and demilitarised zones; long-term and extensive damage to environment that may be detrimental to health of persons or survival of population or whoever commits any of these offences.
(3) Whoever at time of war, armed conflict or occupation orders murder of civilian population or whoever commits such offence, shall be punished by imprisonment of minimum ten years or imprisonment of thirty to forty years.
(4) Whoever, in violation of the rules of international law at time of war, armed conflict or occupation, as an occupying power orders or undertakes relocation of part of its civilian population to occupied territories, shall be punished by imprisonment of minimum five years.
(5) Whoever threatens to commit any of the offences specified in paragraphs 1 and 2 of this Article,
shall be punished by imprisonment of six months to five years.
War Crimes against the Wounded and Sick
Article 373
(1) Whoever in violation of international law at time of war, armed conflict or occupation orders inflicting bodily injuries, torture, inhuman treatment, biological, medical or other research experiment, taking of tissue or body organs for transplantation or other acts causing harm to health or serious suffering against the wounded, sick, shipwrecked or medical staff or religious staff, or orders destroying or appropriation of large extent of materials, medical transportation ìmeans and stocks of medical institutions or units that is not justified by military necessity or whoever commits any of the above offences,
shall be punished by imprisonment of minimum five years.
(2) Whoever at time of war, armed conflict or occupation orders murder of civilianpopulation or whoever commits such offence,
shall be punished by imprisonment of minimum ten years or imprisonment of thirty to forty years.
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Destroying Cultural Heritage
Article 383
(1) Whoever in violation of international law in time of war or armed conflict, destroys cultural or historic monuments or other objects of culture or religious facilities or institutions or facilities intended for the arts, sciences, education or humanitarian causes, or orders such acts committed,
shall be punished by imprisonment of three to fifteen years.
(2) If the offence specified in paragraph 1 of this Article results in destruction of a cultural ìfacility or institution enjoying special protection under international law,
the offender shall be punished by imprisonment of five to fifteen years.
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Translated by OSCE Mission to SaM, February 2006
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