Penalty framework for the crime of hostage taking

Article 301Penal Code 2015 (amended and supplemented in 2017 in the following clauses)1, 2, 3 and 4) regulationsCrime of hostage taking, as follows:

1. A person who captures, holds or imprisons another person as a hostage in order to force a country, territory, international organization or agency, organization or individual to do or not do something as a condition for releasing the hostage, if not falling under the cases specified in Article 113 and Article 299 of this Code, shall be sentenced to imprisonment from 01 year to 04 years.

2. Committing a crime in one of the following cases shall be punishable by imprisonment from 03 to 07 years:

a) Organized;

b) Abusing position and power;

c) For people under 18 years old, women who know they are pregnant, people 70 years old or older;

d) For people on official duty;

d) Causing serious consequences.

3. Committing a crime with very serious consequences shall be punishable by imprisonment from 05 to 10 years.

4. Committing a crime with particularly serious consequences shall be punishable by imprisonment from 08 to 15 years.

5. A person who prepares to commit this crime shall be sentenced to imprisonment from 06 months to 03 years.