Article 103. Deliberate Causation of Serious Damage to Health

 

1. The deliberate causation of serious damage to health which is dangerous to a person's life, or which entailed a loss of eyesight, hearing, or a certain organ, or a loss by an organ of its functions, or which inflicted a permanent facial disfigurement, as well as causation of other damage to health which is dangerous to life, or which entailed a decline in health, combined with a considerable loss of general work capacity by not less than one third, or the complete loss of professional capacity, the guilty person being aware of that fact, or which entailed discontinuation of pregnancy, a mental disorder, causation of drug addiction or addiction to toxic chemicals, -

 

shall be punished by deprivation of freedom for a period from three up to seven years.

 

2. The same act committed:

 

a) with regard to two or more persons;

 

b) with regard to a person or his relatives in relation to the performance by that person of his official activity or the performance of his professional or public duty;

 

c) with regard to a person who was in a helpless state, the guilty person being aware of that fact, as well as which is combined with kidnapping or seizure of a hostage;

 

d) with extreme brutality;

 

e) by an organised group;

 

f) for hire;

 

g) for motives of hooliganism;

 

h) for a motive of social, national, racial, or religious hatred or enmity;

 

i) for the purpose of using organs or tissues of a victim;

 

j) repeatedly or by a person who earlier had committed a murder stipulated by Article 96 of the present Code, -

 

shall be punished by deprivation of freedom for a period from four to eight years.

 

3. Acts stipulated by the first and second part of this Article, which entailed a victim's death by negligence, -

 

shall be punished by deprivation of freedom for a period from five to ten years.