'Persecution against any identifiable group on other grounds universally recognised as impermissible under international law - crimes against humanity' in document 'Georgia - Law amending Criminal Code'

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RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

Article 1. The Criminal Code of Georgia ("saqartvelos sakanonmdeblo macne"1) No. 41(48), 1999) shall be amended as follows:

5. Article 408 shall be drafted as follows:
”Article 408. Crimes against Humanity
Crime against humanity means any of the following acts when committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population, expressed in murder, massive extermination, serious injury to body or health, deportation, forced confinement, torture, rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced pregnancy, enforced sterilization, persecution against any identifiable group on political, racial, national, ethnic, cultural, religious, gender or other grounds, the crime of apartheid, other inhumane acts of a similar character intentionally causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or to mental or physical health,
Shall be punishable by imprisonment for the period from eight to twenty years or life imprisonment.

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:
(h) Persecution against any identifiable group or collectivity on political, racial, national,
ethnic, cultural, religious, gender as defined in paragraph 3, or other grounds that are universally
recognized as impermissible under international law, in connection with any act referred to in this
paragraph or any crime within the jurisdiction of the Court

2. For the purpose of paragraph 1:
(g) ‘Persecution’ means the intentional and severe deprivation of fundamental
rights contrary to international law by reason of the identity of the group
or collectivity;