'Apartheid - crimes against humanity' 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 II BIS

Crimes against humanity

Article 607 bis

1. Those who commit the offences set out below as part of a generalized or systematic attack against the whole or part of the civilian population shall be guilty of crimes against humanity.

2nd. In the context of institutionalised oppression and systematic domination of one racial group over one or more racial groups and where it is intended to maintain this situation.

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;