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grammes depicting brutal violence shall be sentenced for distribution of depictions
of violence to a fine or to imprisonment for at most two years.
(2) The provision in subsection 1 does not apply if the depiction of violence is to
be deemed justifiable because of the informative nature or manifest artistic value
of the film or other motion picture or the recording or data file.
Section 18 - Distribution of a sexually offensive picture (650/2004)
(1) A person who manufactures, offers for sale or for rent or otherwise offers or
makes available, keeps available, exports, imports to or transports through Finland to another country, or otherwise distributes pictures or visual recordings
that factually or realistically depict
(1) a child,
(2) violence or
(3) bestiality
shall be sentenced for distribution of a sexually offensive picture to a fine or imprisonment for at most two years. (540/2011)
(2) An attempt is punishable.
(3) The provisions in section 17, subsection 2 apply also to the pictures and visual recordings referred to in this section.
(4) A child is defined as a person below the age of eighteen years and a person
whose age cannot be determined but whom there is justifiable reason to assume
is below the age of eighteen years. The picture or visual recording is deemed factual in the manner referred to in subsection 1, paragraph 1, if it has been produced in a situation in which a child has actually been the object of sexually offensive conduct and realistic, if it resembles in a misleading manner a picture or
a visual recording produced through photography or in another corresponding
manner of a situation in which a child is the object of sexually offensive conduct.
The definitions of the terms factual and realistic apply correspondingly in the
cases referred to in subsection 1, paragraphs 2 and 3. (540/2011)
Section 18(a) - Aggravated distribution of a sexually offensive picture depicting a child (650/2004)
(1) If, in the distribution of a sexually offensive picture depicting a child
(1) the child is particularly young,
(2) the picture also depicts severe violence or particularly humiliating
treatment of the child,
(3) the offence is committed in a particularly methodical manner or (4) the
offence has been committed within the framework of a criminal organisation referred to in section 1(a), subsection 4, or
(4) the offence has been committed within the framework of an organized
criminal group referred to in Chapter 6, section 5, subsection 2
(564/2015)