'Intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group' in document 'Cape Verde - Penal Code'

Jump to:

RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

Cape Verde Legislative Decree 4/2003 of 18 November 2003 - PENAL CODE

VOLUME II - SPECIFIC PROVISIONS

TITLE IV - CRIMES AGAINST THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY

Article 268
(Genocide)

A penalty of 15 to 25 years' imprisonment shall be imposed as punishment upon anyone who, as part of the execution of a concerted plan, and with the intention of destroying, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, religious or other group identified on the basis of some arbitrary criterion, carries out any of the following acts with respect to members of that group:

RELEVANT ROME STATUTE PROVISIONS

Article 6
Genocide
For the purpose of this Statute, "genocide" means any of the following acts committed with
intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its
physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.