'Apartheid - crimes against humanity' in document 'Hungary - Criminal Code'

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RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

SPECIAL PART

Chapter XI
Crimes Against Humanity

Title I
Crimes Against Peace

Apartheid

Section 157

(1) The person who - with the aim of the obtention and maintenance of domination by one racial group of people over another racial group of people and/or with the aim of the regular oppression of the other racial group -

a) kills the members of a racial group or groups,
b) constrains a racial group or groups to such conditions of life by which it strives for the total or partial physical annihilation of the groups

commits a felony and shall be punishable with imprisonment from ten to fifteen years or life imprisonment.

(2) The person who commits another crime of apartheid, shall be punishable for a felony from five to ten years.

(3) The punishment shall be imprisonment from ten to fifteen years or life imprisonment, if the criminal act of apartheid described in subsection (2) has given rise to serious consequences.

(4) For the purposes of subsections (2) and (3), the crime of apartheid shall mean the crime of apartheid defined in paragraphs a)/(ii), a)/(iii), c), d), e), and f) of Article II of the International Treaty on the Combat and Punishment of Crimes of Apartheid, adopted on 30 November 1973 by the General Assembly of the the United Nations Organisation in New York promulgated by Law-Decree No. 27 of 1976.

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:
(j) The crime of apartheid

2. For the purpose of paragraph 1:
(h) ‘The crime of apartheid’ means inhumane acts of a character similar to
those referred to in paragraph 1, committed in the context of an
institutionalized regime of systematic oppression and domination by one
racial group over any other racial group or groups and committed with the
intention of maintaining that regime;