Costa Rica

Criminal Prosecution to Punish War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity No. 8272

COSTA RICA - Criminal Prosecution to Punish War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity No. 8272

Article 2. Articles 378 and 379 are hereby appended to Part XVII of the Penal Code; the numbering of the subsequent articles is incremented accordingly.

The texts shall read as follows:

“Article 379. Crimes against Humanity. A prison term of between ten and twenty-five years shall be applied to anyone who, as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against a civilian population, with knowledge of the attack, commits or orders the commission of acts recognised as crimes against humanity by international treaties to which Costa Rica is party – where these treaties relate to the protection of human rights – or by virtue of the Rome Statute."

Keywords

Crimes against humanity
Civilian population - crimes against humanity
Knowledge of the attack - crimes against humanity
Widespread or systematic attack - crimes against humanity



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