'Rape - crimes against humanity' in document 'Greece- Adaptation of internal law to ICC Statute'

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RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

PART A
PROVISIONS OF SUBSTANTIVE CRIMINAL LAW

2. SPECIAL PART

Article 8
Crimes against humanity

1. Anyone who, in the context of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any
civilian population, which is directed or encouraged by a state or an organization which exercises de facto authority in a certain territory:
f) Commits rape (art. 336 Cr. C.) or enforced prostitution (art. 349 Cr. C.) or enforced sterilization or unlawfully confines a woman made pregnant forcibly or with the use of threat of force , with the intent of affecting the ethnic composition of any population,

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:
(g) Rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced pregnancy, enforced sterilization, or any other form of sexual violence of comparable gravity