'Apartheid - crimes against humanity' in document 'Norway: Penal Code'

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RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

Chapter 16. Genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes

Section 102. Crimes against humanity

Any person is liable to punishment for a crime against humanity who, as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population,

(j) in the context of an institutionalised regime of systematic oppression and domination by one racial group over one or more other racial groups/any other racial group or groups* commits a crime of apartheid by carrying out inhumane acts of a character like or similar to that of acts falling within the scope of this section with the intention of maintaining that regime, or

RELEVANT ROME STATUTE PROVISIONS

Article 7
Crimes against humanity
1. For the purpose of this Statute, "crime against humanity" means any of the following acts when committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population, with knowledge of the attack:
(j) The crime of apartheid

2. For the purpose of paragraph 1:
(h) ‘The crime of apartheid’ means inhumane acts of a character similar to
those referred to in paragraph 1, committed in the context of an
institutionalized regime of systematic oppression and domination by one
racial group over any other racial group or groups and committed with the
intention of maintaining that regime;