Latvia

The Criminal Law

Special Part

Chapter IX
Crimes against Humanity and Peace, War Crimes and Genocide

Section 71.2 Crimes against Humanity

For a person who commits crime against humanity, that is, for an activity which is performed as a part of vast or systematic offensive to civilians and which has been expressed as homicide, extermination, enslavement, deportation or forced movement, unlawful deprivation or limitation of liberty, torture, rape, involvement of a person into sexual slavery, compelling the engaging in prostitution, forced fertilisation or sterilisation, or sexual violence of similar degree of severity, apartheid, persecution of any group of people or union on the basis of political, racial, national, ethnical, cultural, religious or gender affiliation or other reasons which have been recognised as inadmissible in the international law, in relation to any activity indicated in this Section or genocide, or war crime or other activity provided for in the international law binding upon the Republic of Latvia, which causes serious physical or mental suffering,
the applicable punishment is life imprisonment or deprivation of liberty for a term of not less than three and not exceeding twenty years.

Keywords

Crimes against humanity
Genocide
Persecution - crimes against humanity
War crimes
Any other form of sexual violence - crimes against humanity
Apartheid - crimes against humanity
Civilian population - crimes against humanity
Deportation of population - crimes against humanity
Enforced prostitution - crimes against humanity
Enforced sterilisation - crimes against humanity
Enslavement - crimes against humanity
Extermination - crimes against humanity
Forced pregnancy - crimes against humanity
Forcible transfer of population - crimes against humanity
Imprisonment - crimes against humanity
Murder - crimes against humanity
Other inhumane acts - 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
Rape - crimes against humanity
Severe deprivation of physical liberty - crimes against humanity
Sexual slavery - crimes against humanity
Torture - crimes against humanity
Unique provision - crimes against humanity
Widespread or systematic attack - crimes against humanity
Gender
National penalties - maximum penalty
National penalties - life imprisonment



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