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:
g) Commits enforced disappearance in order to remove a person from the protection of the law for a prolonged period of time by:
(aa) abducting him or her with the authorization, support or acquiescence of, a State or a political organization, or depriving his or her freedom of movement in any other manner, followed by a refusal to acknowledge that or to give information on the fate or whereabouts of those persons, or
(bb) refusing, following orders of a state or a political organization or contravening a legal obligation, to give promptly information on the fate or whereabouts of the persons against whom the above, under (aa), acts where committed or by providing false information.

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:
(i) Enforced disappearance of persons

2. For the purpose of paragraph 1:
(i) ‘Enforced disappearance of persons’ means the arrest, detention or
abduction of persons by, or with the authorization, support or
acquiescence of, a State or a political organization, followed by a refusal to
acknowledge that deprivation of freedom or to give information on the
fate or whereabouts of those persons, with the intention of removing them
from the protection of the law for a prolonged period of time.