The Criminal Code of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia

State:Ethiopia
Date: May 9, 2005
Language:English
Status:Enacted
Version:PDF (Subject to verification by State)

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Abetting
Age of criminal responsibility - ICC proceedings
Age of criminal responsibility - national proceedings
Aggregation of criminal offences
Aiding
Amnesty content
Assisting
Attacking or bombarding towns, villages, dwellings or buildings which are undefended and which are not military objectives - IAC
Attempt
Awareness of conflict - war crimes
Biological experiments - IAC
Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group
Command responsibility - national proceedings
Commission through another person
Common purpose
Compelling a prisoner of war to serve in the forces of a hostile power - IAC
Compelling a protected person to serve in the forces of a hostile power - IAC
Compelling nationals of hostile party to take part in operations of war against their own country - IAC
Conscripting children under 15 into the national armed forces - IAC
Conspiracy
Contribution
Corruptly influencing a witness, obstructing or interfering with the attendance or testimony of a witness, retaliating against a witness for giving testimony or destroying, tampering with or interfering with the collection of evidence
Declaring abolished, suspended or inadmissible in a court of law the rights and actions of the nationals of a hostile party - IAC
Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part
Destroying or seizing the enemy's property unless imperative - IAC
Duress - national proceedings
Employing asphyxiating, poisonous or other gases, and all analogous liquids, materials or devices - IAC
Employing bullets which flatten or expand - IAC
Employing poison or poisoned weapons - IAC
Employing weapons, projectiles and materials and methods of warfare which are inherently indiscriminate - IAC
Employing weapons, projectiles and materials and methods of warfare which cause superfluous injury or unnecessary suffering - IAC
Enforced prostitution - IAC
Enlisting children under 15 into the national armed forces - IAC
Extensive appropriation of property - IAC
Extensive destruction of property - IAC
Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group
Genocide
Giving false testimony
Grave breaches - IAC
Humiliating and degrading treatment - IAC
Immunity
Impeding, intimidating or corruptly influencing an official of the Court
Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group
Improper use of the emblems of the Geneva Conventions - IAC
Improper use of the flag of the United Nations - IAC
Improper use of the military insignia and uniform of the United Nations - IAC
Incapacity - national proceedings
Incitement - other crimes
Incitement to genocide
Individual commission
Individual criminal responsibility
Inducing
Inhuman treatment - IAC
Insanity - national proceedings
Intent - national proceedings
Intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group
Intent to destroy, in whole or in part, other groups
Intentionally directing attacks against buildings dedicated to religion, education, art, science or charitable purposes, historic monuments, hospitals and places where the sick and wounded are collected - IAC
Intentionally directing attacks against buildings, material, medical units and transport using the emblems of the Geneva Conventions - IAC
Intentionally directing attacks against civilian objects - IAC
Intentionally directing attacks against installations, material, units or vehicles involved in humanitarian assistance - IAC
Intentionally directing attacks against personnel involved in humanitarian assistance - IAC
Intentionally directing attacks against personnel using the emblems of the Geneva Conventions - IAC
Intentionally launching attacks that will cause environmental damage - IAC
Intentionally launching attacks that will cause incidental damage to civilian objects - IAC
Intentionally starving as method of warfare - IAC
Intoxication - national proceedings
Joint commission
Joint sentence following multiple convictions - national proceedings
Jurisdiction
Killing members of the group
Killing or wounding a combatant who has laid down his arms and surrendered at discretion - IAC
Killing or wounding a combatant who no longer has means of defence and has surrendered at discretion - IAC
Killing or wounding treacherously individuals belonging to the hostile nation or army - IAC
Knowledge - national proceedings
Manifestly unlawful order
Mental disease or defect - national proceedings
Mental element
Mistake of fact - national proceedings
Mistake of law - national proceedings
Multiplicity of criminal offences
Mutilation - IAC
National penalties - death sentence
National penalties - genocide
National penalties - life imprisonment
National penalties - maximum penalty
National penalties - offences against the administration of justice
National penalties - war crimes
Nationality jurisdiction - national proceedings
Ne bis in idem
Ne bis in idem - State's own court
Necessity - national proceedings
Negligence
Non-retroactivity
Nulla poena sine lege
Nullum crimen sine lege
Offences against administration of justice
Ordering
Other prohibited weapons - IAC
Outrages upon personal dignity - IAC
Pardon
Passive personality jurisdiction
Pillaging - IAC
Preparation
Presenting false or forged evidence
Providing means
Rape - IAC
Recidivism of criminal offences
Reduction of national sentence following pre-trial detention - national proceedings
Self-defence - national proceedings
Sexual slavery - IAC
Soliciting
State privileges and immunities
Superior orders - national proceedings
Superior responsibility - national proceedings
Taking of hostages - IAC
Territorial jurisdiction - national proceedings
Torture - IAC
Unique provision - modes of liability
Universal jurisdiction
Unlawful confinement - IAC
Unlawful deportation - IAC
Unlawful transfer - IAC
Using children under 15 to participate actively in hostilities - IAC
Voluntary withdrawal
War crimes
Wilful killing - IAC
Wilfully causing great suffering - IAC
Wilfully causing serious injury to body - IAC
Wilfully causing serious injury to health - IAC
Wilfully depriving a prisoner of war of the rights of fair and regular trial - IAC
Wilfully depriving a protected person of the rights of fair and regular trial - IAC