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The relevant provisions of implementing legislation: [1]
The Relevant Provisions of the Rome Statute

RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

SECTION FOURTEEN CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY

CHAPTER XLVII. CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY, PEACE, SECURITY AND INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW

Article 411. Deliberate Violation of the Norms of International Humanitarian Law amid Armed Conflict

2. Deliberate violation of the International Humanitarian Law amid any international or internal armed conflict, directed against the persons not participating in the hostilities or not having any means of defence as well as the wounded, ill, medical or spiritual personnel, sanitary units, sanitary vehicles, war prisoners, civilians or the foregoing violation, within the occupied territory or the zone of hostilities, directed against the civilian population, the persecuted, appertained within the zone of the hostilities, or other persons enjoying protection amid hostilities, namely:

g) hostage-taking:

RELEVANT ROME STATUTE PROVISIONS

Article 8
War crimes
2. For the purpose of this Statute, "war crimes" means:
(a) Grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, namely, any of the following acts against persons or property protected under the provisions of the relevant Geneva Convention:
(viii) Taking of hostages.