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

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RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

SPECIAL PART

TITLE THIRTY-FIVE
CRIMINAL OFFENCES AGAINST HUMANITY AND OTHER VALUES GUARANTEED BY INTERNATIONAL LAW

Crimes against humanity

Article 427
Anyone who by breaching the rules of international law, within the limits of a wider or systematic attack against civilian population, orders any of the following : murders ; placing the population or its part under such living conditions as to bring about their complete or partial extermination ; enslavement ; forced displacement ; torture ; rape ; coercion to prostitution ; coercion to pregnancy or sterilization with a view to changing the ethnic composition of the population ; persecution or expulsion on political, religious, racial, national, ethnic, cultural, sexual or any other grounds ; detention or abduction of persons without disclosing information thereon so as to deprive them of legal assistance ; oppression of a racial group or establishment of domination of one such group over another ; or any other similar inhuman acts intended to cause serious suffering or seriously harm health ; or who commits any of the said offences shall be punished by a prison term not shorter than five years or by a forty year prison term.

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;