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Criminal Code

of the Azerbaijan Republic

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Article 220. Mass disorders

220.1. The organisation of a mass disorders accompanied with violence, breaking, arsons, destruction of property, application of fire-arms, explosives, and also rendering of armed resistance to representative of authority, or participation in such disorders -

is punished by imprisonment for the term from four up to twelve years.

220.2. Appeals to active insubordination to legal requirements of representatives of authority and to mass disorders, as well as appeals to violence above citizens -

is punished by restriction freedom for the term up to three years or imprisonment on the same term.

Article 221. Hooliganism

221.1. Hooliganism, that is the deliberate actions roughly breaking a social order, expressing obvious disrespect for a society, accompanying with application of violence on citizens or threat of its application, as well as destruction or damage of another's property -

is punished by public works for the term from hundred sixty up to two hundred, or corrective works for the term up to one year, or imprisonment for the term up to one year.

221.2. The same act:

221.2.1. committed by group of persons or repeatedly;

221.2.2. committed with resistance to representative of the authority, acting as on protection of a social order or stopping infringement of a social order or with resistance to other person -

is punished by corrective works for the term up to two years or imprisonment for the term up to five years.

221.3. The hooliganism committed with application of a weapon or subjects, used as the weapon -

is punished by imprisonment for the term from three up to seven years

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