ANNEX Article 235. Use of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment Use of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, that is unlawful mental or physical pressure on a suspect, accused, witness, victim or any other party at a criminal proceeding, or a convicted person serving a sentence, their close relatives by means of threatening, striking, beating, tormenting, causing of suffering or other unlawful acts committed by an inquiry officer, an investigator, a prosecutor or any other employee of law-enforcement agency, penitentiary facility with the aim to obtain from them any information, confession in committing a crime, their unauthorized punishment for the committed act or their coercion to commit any act, is punished by correctional work for a period up to three years or imprisonment for a period up to three years. a) b) c) d) e) The same acts committed: with use of violence dangerous for life and health or threat to use such violence; on any ground based on nationality, race, religious or social discrimination; by a group of people; iteratively; towards a juvenile or a women, who is known to be pregnant for the guilty person shall be punished by imprisonment from three to five years. Stipulated in parts one and two of the present Article acts that has resulted in grave bodily injures or other grave consequences shall be punished by imprisonment from five to eight years with deprivation of certain right.” 1