Parents and teachers who use physical violence against children for disciplinary purposes will be fined up to 200 manats.
According to elchi, this is reflected in the new Article 525-1 added to the Code of Administrative Offenses, for which President Ilham Aliyev signed a decree on its implementation.
According to the law, parents (or their legal guardians), as well as employees of educational, medical, social service, sports, cultural, recreational, and penitentiary institutions responsible for supervising children, will be fined two hundred manats for the use of corporal punishment against a child, that is, for committing physical and/or psychological violence against a child for the purpose of upbringing or as a disciplinary measure.
This will be applied provided that the act does not result in criminal liability under the relevant articles of the Criminal Code.