'Apartheid - crimes against humanity' in document 'Finland - Penal Code'

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RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

Chapter 11 – War crimes and crimes against humanity

Section 3 - Crime against humanity

A person who, as part of a broad or systematic assault on civilian population,

(5) engages in racial discrimination or persecutes a recognizable group or community on the basis of political opinion, race, nationality, ethnic origin, culture, religion or gender or on other comparable grounds,

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;