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RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

The Special Part

Title I
Crimes and delicts against persons

Chapter I
Crimes against humankind

Inhuman treatment

Art.173 – (2) The same penalty shall also sanction the commission with regard to the persons in para.
(1) of one of the following acts :

d) dislocation or deprivation of freedom with no legal grounds ;
e) conviction or execution without prior judgment by a court founded legally and that judged the case in observance of the fundamental judicial safeguards provided in the law.

RELEVANT ROME STATUTE PROVISIONS

Article 8
War crimes
2. For the purpose of this Statute, "war crimes" means:
(a) Grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, namely, any of the following acts against persons or property protected under the provisions of the relevant Geneva Convention:
(vi) Wilfully depriving a prisoner of war or other protected person of the rights of fair and regular trial