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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:
(f) Torture
2. For the purpose of paragraph 1:
(e) ‘Torture’ means the intentional infliction of severe pain or suffering,
whether physical or mental, upon a person in the custody or under the
control of the accused; except that torture shall not include pain or
suffering arising only from, inherent in or incidental to, lawful sanctions;