'Outrages upon personal dignity - NIAC' in document 'Spain: Provisions of Criminal Code implementing RS'

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RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

TITLE XXIV
Offences against the International Community

CHAPTER III
Offences against Protected Persons and Property in the Event of Armed Conflict

Article 612
In the event of an armed conflict, a sentence of three to seven years’ imprisonment, which shall be in addition to any sentence imposed for the damage or injury caused, shall be imposed on anyone who does any of the following:
3rd. Seriously injures, deprives of or fails to procure the necessary food or medical assistance for any protected person, or subjects him or her to degrading or humiliating treatment, fails to inform him or her, without justifiable delay and in a comprehensible manner, of his or her situation, imposes collective punishment for individual acts or violates the rules concerning the housing of women and families or concerning the special protection of women and children laid down in international treaties of which Spain is a signatory.

TITLE XXIV
Offences against the International Community

CHAPTER III
Offences against Protected Persons and Property in the Event of Armed Conflict

Article 612
In the event of an armed conflict, a sentence of three to seven years’ imprisonment, which shall be in addition to any sentence imposed for the damage or injury caused, shall be imposed on anyone who does any of the following:
7th. Dispossesses the dead, the wounded, the sick, the shipwrecked, prisoners of war or imprisoned civilians, of their personal effects.

RELEVANT ROME STATUTE PROVISIONS

Article 8
War crimes
2. For the purpose of this Statute, "war crimes" means:
(c) In the case of an armed conflict not of an international character, serious violations of article 3 common to the four Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, namely, any of the following acts committed against persons taking no active part in the hostilities, including members of armed forces who have laid down their arms and those placed hors de combat by sickness, wounds, detention or any other cause:
(ii) Committing outrages upon personal dignity, in particular humiliating and degrading treatment