Fiji

Crimes Decree 2009 (decree No. 44 of 2009)

CHAPTER III — CRIMINAL OFFENCES

PART 12 — OFFENCES AGAINST THE INTERNATIONAL ORDER

Division 3 — Crimes Against Humanity

Crime against humanity—enforced sterilisation

92.— (1) A person (the perpetrator) commits an indictable offence if —

(a) the perpetrator deprives one or more persons of biological reproductive capacity ; and
(b) the deprivation is not effected by a birth-control measure that has a non-permanent effect in practice ; and
(c) the perpetrator’s conduct is neither justified by the medical or hospital treatment of the person or persons nor carried out with the consent of the person or persons ; and
(d) the perpetrator’s conduct is committed intentionally or knowingly as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against a civilian population.

Penalty — Imprisonment for 25 years.

Keywords

National penalties - crimes against humanity
National penalties - maximum penalty



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