CHAPTER III — CRIMINAL OFFENCES
PART 12 — OFFENCES AGAINST THE INTERNATIONAL ORDER
Division 3 — Crimes Against Humanity
Crime against humanity—persecution
94.— (1) A person (the perpetrator) commits an indictable offence if —
(a) the perpetrator severely deprives one or more persons of any of the rights referred to in paragraph (b) ; and
(b) the rights are those guaranteed in articles 6, 7, 8 and 9, paragraph 2 of article 14, article 18, paragraph 2 of article 20, paragraph 2 of article 23 and article 27 of the Covenant ; and
(c) the perpetrator targets the person or persons by reason of the identity of a group or collectivity or targets the group or collectivity as such ; and
(d) the grounds on which the targeting is based are political, racial, national, ethnic, cultural, religious, gender or other grounds that are recognised in paragraph 1 of article 2 of the Covenant ; and
(e) the perpetrator’s conduct is committed in connection with another act that is :
(i) a proscribed inhumane ac ; or
(ii) genocide ; and
(f) 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 17 years.
National penalties - crimes against humanity
National penalties - maximum penalty
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