Penal Code Act, 2010

State:Lesotho
Date: March 9, 2012
Language:English
Status:Enacted
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Relevant Keywords

Abetting
Age of criminal responsibility - national proceedings
Aiding
Any other form of sexual violence - NIAC
Any other form of sexual violence - crimes against humanity
Apartheid - crimes against humanity
Applicable law
Assisting
Attacking or bombarding towns, villages, dwellings or buildings which are undefended and which are not military objectives - IAC
Attempt
Biological experiments - IAC
Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group
Civilian population - crimes against humanity
Common purpose
Compelling a prisoner of war to serve in the forces of a hostile power - IAC
Compelling a protected person to serve in the forces of a hostile power - IAC
Compelling nationals of hostile party to take part in operations of war against their own country - IAC
Conscripting children under 15 into armed forces or groups - NIAC
Conscripting children under 15 into the national armed forces - IAC
Conspiracy
Crimes against humanity
Cruel treatment - NIAC
Declaring abolished, suspended or inadmissible in a court of law the rights and actions of the nationals of a hostile party - IAC
Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part
Deportation of population - crimes against humanity
Destroying or seizing the enemy's property unless imperative - IAC
Destroying or seizing the enemy's property unless imperative - NIAC
Determination of sentence - national proceedings
Duress - national proceedings
Employing asphyxiating, poisonous or other gases, and all analogous liquids, materials or devices - IAC
Employing bullets which flatten or expand - IAC
Employing poison or poisoned weapons - IAC
Employing weapons, projectiles and materials and methods of warfare which cause superfluous injury or unnecessary suffering - IAC
Enforced disappearance - crimes against humanity
Enforced prostitution - IAC
Enforced prostitution - NIAC
Enforced prostitution - crimes against humanity
Enforced sterilisation - IAC
Enforced sterilisation - NIAC
Enforced sterilisation - crimes against humanity
Enlisting children under 15 into armed forces or groups - NIAC
Enlisting children under 15 into the national armed forces - IAC
Enslavement - crimes against humanity
Extensive appropriation of property - IAC
Extensive destruction of property - IAC
Extermination - crimes against humanity
Forced pregnancy - IAC
Forced pregnancy - NIAC
Forced pregnancy - crimes against humanity
Forcible transfer of population - crimes against humanity
Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group
Gender
Genocide
Grave breaches - IAC
Humiliating and degrading treatment - IAC
Humiliating and degrading treatment - NIAC
Immunity - national proceedings
Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group
Imprisonment - crimes against humanity
Improper use of a flag of truce - IAC
Improper use of the emblems of the Geneva Conventions - IAC
Improper use of the flag of the United Nations - IAC
Improper use of the flag of the enemy - IAC
Improper use of the military insignia and uniform of the United Nations - IAC
Improper use of the military insignia and uniform of the enemy - IAC
Individual criminal responsibility
Inducing
Inhuman treatment - IAC
Insanity - national proceedings
Intent - national proceedings
Intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group
Intent to destroy, in whole or in part, other groups
Intentionally directing attacks against buildings dedicated to religion, education, art, science or charitable purposes, historic monuments, hospitals and places where the sick and wounded are collected - IAC
Intentionally directing attacks against buildings dedicated to religion, education, art, science or charitable purposes, historic monuments, hospitals and places where the sick and wounded are collected - NIAC
Intentionally directing attacks against buildings, material, medical units and transport using the emblems of the Geneva Conventions - IAC
Intentionally directing attacks against buildings, material, medical units and transport using the emblems of the Geneva Conventions - NIAC
Intentionally directing attacks against civilian objects - IAC
Intentionally directing attacks against individual civilians not taking part in hostilities - IAC
Intentionally directing attacks against individual civilians not taking part in hostilities - NIAC
Intentionally directing attacks against installations, material, medical units or vehicles involved in humanitarian assistance - NIAC
Intentionally directing attacks against installations, material, units or vehicles involved in a peacekeeping mission in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations - IAC
Intentionally directing attacks against installations, material, units or vehicles involved in a peacekeeping mission in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations - NIAC
Intentionally directing attacks against installations, material, units or vehicles involved in humanitarian assistance - IAC
Intentionally directing attacks against personnel involved in a peacekeeping mission in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations - IAC
Intentionally directing attacks against personnel involved in a peacekeeping mission in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations - NIAC
Intentionally directing attacks against personnel involved in humanitarian assistance - IAC
Intentionally directing attacks against personnel involved in humanitarian assistance - NIAC
Intentionally directing attacks against personnel using the emblems of the Geneva Conventions - IAC
Intentionally directing attacks against personnel using the emblems of the Geneva Conventions - NIAC
Intentionally directing attacks against the civilian population - IAC
Intentionally directing attacks against the civilian population - NIAC
Intentionally launching attacks that will cause environmental damage - IAC
Intentionally launching attacks that will cause incidental damage to civilian objects - IAC
Intentionally launching attacks that will cause incidental loss of life or injury to civilians - IAC
Intentionally starving as method of warfare - IAC
Internal disturbances and tensions (riots, isolated and sporadic acts of violence or other acts of a similar nature)
Internal disturbances and tensions (riots, isolated and sporadic acts of violence or other acts of a similar nature) - protracted armed conflict
Intoxication - national proceedings
Jurisdiction
Killing members of the group
Killing or wounding a combatant who has laid down his arms and surrendered at discretion - IAC
Killing or wounding a combatant who no longer has means of defence and has surrendered at discretion - IAC
Killing or wounding treacherously a combatant adversary - NIAC
Killing or wounding treacherously individuals belonging to the hostile nation or army - IAC
Knowledge - national proceedings
Knowledge of the attack - crimes against humanity
Manifestly unlawful order
Medical experiments - IAC
Medical experiments - NIAC
Mental disease or defect - national proceedings
Mental element
Mistake of fact - national proceedings
Mistake of law - national proceedings
Mitigating factors - national proceedings
Murder - NIAC
Murder - crimes against humanity
Mutilation - IAC
Mutilation - other serious violations of laws and customs of war - NIAC
Mutilation - serious violation of Common Article 3 - NIAC
National penalties - national proceedings
Nationality jurisdiction - national proceedings
Ne bis in idem
Necessity - national proceedings
Negligence
Non-retroactivity
Not affording judicial guarantees to the passing of sentences and the carrying out of executions - NIAC
Nulla poena sine lege
Nullum crimen sine lege
Omission
Ordering displacement of the civilian population - NIAC
Other defences - national proceedings
Other inhumane acts - crimes against humanity
Other serious violations of the laws and customs - NIAC
Outrages upon personal dignity - IAC
Outrages upon personal dignity - NIAC
Passive personality jurisdiction
Persecution - crimes against humanity
Persecution against any identifiable collectivity on other grounds universally recognised as impermissible under international law - crimes against humanity
Persecution against any identifiable collectivity on political, racial, national, ethnic, cultural, religious, or gender grounds - crimes against humanity
Persecution against any identifiable group on other grounds universally recognised as impermissible under international law - crimes against humanity
Persecution against any identifiable group on political, racial, national, ethnic, cultural, religious, or gender grounds - crimes against humanity
Pillaging - IAC
Pillaging - NIAC
Rape - IAC
Rape - NIAC
Rape - crimes against humanity
Recklessness
Scientific experiments - IAC
Scientific experiments - NIAC
Self-defence - national proceedings
Sentencing - national proceedings
Serious violations of Common Article 3 - NIAC
Severe deprivation of physical liberty - crimes against humanity
Sexual slavery - IAC
Sexual slavery - NIAC
Sexual slavery - crimes against humanity
Soliciting
Superior orders - national proceedings
Taking of hostages - IAC
Taking of hostages - NIAC
Territorial jurisdiction - national proceedings
Terrorism
Torture - IAC
Torture - NIAC
Torture - crimes against humanity
Transferring own civilians into occupied territory - IAC
Transferring population of an occupied territory - IAC
Unique provision - NIAC
Unique provision - jurisdiction
Universal jurisdiction
Unlawful confinement - IAC
Unlawful deportation - IAC
Unlawful transfer - IAC
Using children under 15 to participate actively in hostilities - IAC
Using children under 15 to participate actively in hostilities - NIAC
Utilising the presence of a civilian or other protected person to render certain points, areas or military forces immune from military operations - IAC
Violations of laws and customs - IAC
War crimes
Widespread or systematic attack - crimes against humanity
Wilful killing - IAC
Wilfully causing great suffering - IAC
Wilfully causing serious injury to body - IAC
Wilfully causing serious injury to health - IAC
Wilfully depriving a prisoner of war of the rights of fair and regular trial - IAC
Wilfully depriving a protected person of the rights of fair and regular trial - IAC