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SPECIAL PART
Chapter I- CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY
Article 74- Crimes against humanity
Murders, massacres, slavery, internal exile and deportation, as well as every act of torture or other inhuman violence committed according to a concrete pre-meditated plan against a group of civil population, for political, ideological, racial, ethnic, and religious reasons, is punished by not less than fifteen years of imprisonment or with life imprisonment.
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;