Chapter Four
Concerning Punishment
Article 20. The purposes of punishment.
Punishment dose not merely constitute chastisement for the crime committed; it also has the purpose of reforming and reeducating convicted persons in a spirit of an honorable attitude toward labor, scrupulous compliance with the law, and respect for the rules of socialist communal living, and the prevention of the commission of further crimes either by the convicted persons or by others.
It is not the purpose of punishment to inflict physical suffering or to denigrate human dignity.
Article 21. Type of punishment.
The following penalties may be assigned to persons who have committed crimes:
- 1) deprivation of freedom;
- 2) exile;
- 3) banishment;
- 4) corrective labor without deprivation of freedom;
- 5) deprivation of the right to occupy certain positions or to engage in certain activities;
- 6) fines;
- 7) removal from position;
- 8) imposition of an obligation to make restitution for damages;
- 9) public censure;
- 10) the confiscation of property;
- 11) deprivation of a military or special title.
Punishment in the form of transfer to a disciplinary battalion may also be applied to military personnel with a fixed term of service.
Article 22. Basic and supplementary measures of punishment.
The basic measures of punishment are deprivation of freedom, corrective labor without deprivation of freedom, public censure, and transfer to a disciplinary battalion.
Banishment, exile, deprivation of the right to occupy certain positions or to engage in certain activities, fines, removal from position, imposition of an obligation to make restitution for
