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—apartheid

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

(a) the perpetrator commits against one or more persons an act that is a proscribed inhumane act, or an act that is of a nature and gravity similar to any such proscribed inhumane act ; and
(b) the perpetrator’s conduct is committed in the context of an institutionalised regime of systematic oppression and domination by one racial group over any other racial group or groups ; and
(c) the perpetrator knows of, or is reckless as to, the factual circumstances that establish the character of the act ; and
(d) the perpetrator intends to maintain the regime by the conduct ; and
(e) 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.

Keywords

National penalties - crimes against humanity
National penalties - maximum penalty



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