Chapter 2 Punishment of Crimes within the jurisdiction of the Court

Article 9 (Crimes against humanity)
Any person who kills anyone by committing widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population pursuant to or in furtherance of a State or organizational policy to commit such attack shall be subject to capital punishment, imprisonment of life or no less than 7 years. Any person who commits any of the following acts in pursuant to or in furtherance of a State or organizational policy to commit widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population shall be subject to imprisonment of life or no less than 5 years.

7. Persecuting or restricting basic humane rights of any identifiable group or collectivity on political, racial, national, ethnic, cultural, religious, gender or other grounds that are universally recognized as impermissible under international law

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;