Law Amending Criminal Law of 2015

Brief Description

The Law Amending Criminal Law of 2015 (in force since 1 January 2016) resulted in improvements in protection against gender-specific violence under criminal law, among other things through: 
• increasing the criminal penalty for qualified physical injuries, for example in the case of FGM the sentence has been increased to 1 to 10 years (instead of 6 months to 5 years)
• introduction of the separate criminal offence of forced marriage 
• introduction of the separate criminal offence of cyber bullying 
• introduction of the separate criminal offence of violation of sexual self-determination 
• increase in criminal liability for sexual harassment