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Article 1 Code of Crimes against International Law (CCAIL)
Part 2 Crimes against International Law
Chapter 2 War crimes
Section 11 War crimes consisting in the use of prohibited methods of warfare
(1) Whoever in connection with an international armed conflict or with an armed conflict not of an international character,
4. uses a person who is to be protected under international humanitarian law as a shield to restrain a hostile party from undertaking operations of war against certain targets,
shall be punished with imprisonment for not less than three years. In less serious cases under number 2 the punishment shall be imprisonment for not less than one year.
Article 8
War crimes
2. For the purpose of this Statute, "war crimes" means:
(b) Other serious violations of the laws and customs applicable in international armed conflict, within the established framework of international law, namely, any of the following acts:
(xxiii) Utilizing the presence of a civilian or other protected person to render certain points, areas or military forces immune from military operations