'Torture - crimes against humanity' in document 'Albania - Criminal Code'

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RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

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.

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:
(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;