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Excess of Measures
Excess of measures - their manifest disproportion to the nature and degree of public danger of the crime committed by the person being detained and the circumstances of the detention, when unnecessary harm clearly excessive and not warranted by the situation is caused to the person1.
Criminal Code of the Russian Federation dated 13.06.1996, as amended on 1996-06-13, Article 38, paragraph 2 // Official Gazette of the Russian Federation. 1996. No. 25. Art. 2954. ↩