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Penal Code

(1962:700)

(excerpts)

Chapter 4

Section 4a

A person who commits criminal acts as defined in Chapters 3, 4 or 6 against another person having, or have had, a close relationship to the perpetrator shall, if the acts form a part of an element in a repeated violation of that person’s integrity and suited to severely damage that person’s self-confidence, be sentenced for gross violation of integrity to imprisonment for at least six months and at most six years.

If the acts described in the first paragraph were committed by a man against a woman to whom he is, or has been, married or with whom he is, or has been cohabiting under circumstances comparable to marriage, he shall be sentenced for gross violation of a woman’s integrity to the same punishment. (Law 1998:393)

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Chapter 17

Article 10

A person who, by violence or threat of violence, assaults someone because he has, in court or before another authority, filed a complaint, pleaded a cause, testified, or else made a statement at a hearing, or to prevent him from so doing, shall be sentenced for interference in a judicial matter to a fine or imprisonment for at most two years. The same shall apply to a person who by some other act causes suffering, injury or inconvenience, or by threat of such act, assaults someone because the latter testified or made some other statement at an official hearing, or does so to prevent the making of such a statement.

If the crime is gross, imprisonment for at least six months and at most six years shall be imposed (Law 1997:389)