Article 104. Deliberate Causation of Damage to Health of Medium Gravity

 

1. The deliberate causation of damage to health of medium gravity that is not dangerous to a person's life, and did not entail consequences indicated in Article 103 of the present Code, but which caused a lasting decline in health, or a considerable long-term loss of general work capacity by not less than one third, -

 

shall be punished by detention under arrest for a period from three to six months, or by deprivation of freedom for a period up to three years.

 

shall be punished by restriction of liberty for the period of up to three years or by arrest for up to six months, or by deprivation of liberty for the period of up to three 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 exceptional brutality, as well as with regard to a person who was in a helpless state, the guilty person being aware of that fact;

 

d) by an organised group;

 

e) for motives of hooliganism;

 

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

 

g) repeatedly or by a person who earlier deliberately caused grave damage to health or a murder stipulated by Article 96 of the present Code, -

 

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

 

shall be punished by restriction of liberty for the period of up to five years or by deprivation of liberty for the same period.