Belgium

Act of 5 August 2003 on Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law

CHAPTER II AMENDMENTS TO THE CRIMINAL CODE
Article 8
An article 136 quater shall be inserted into the same Title and shall read as follows:

“Article 136 quater
1. The war crimes enumerated below, as referred to in the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949 and in their First and Second Additional Protocols, adopted at Geneva on 8 June 1977, in the laws and customs applicable to armed conflict, as defined in article 2 of the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, in article 1 of the First and Second Additional Protocols to these Conventions, adopted in Geneva on 8 June 1977, and in article 8, paragraph 2(f) of the Statute of the International Criminal Court, constitute crimes under international law and shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of this Title, without prejudice to the provisions of criminal law applicable to offences of negligence, if by the action or omission such crimes infringe the protection guaranteed to persons and property under the said Conventions, Protocols, laws and customs:
(19) except where justified under the conditions laid down in (18), any act consisting of subjecting the persons referred to in (18), even with their consent, to physical mutilation, medical or scientific experiments, or the removal of organs or tissue for transplantation, unless the procedure concerned consists of the donation of blood for transfusion or of skin for transplantation undertaken voluntarily, without compulsion and for therapeutic aims

Keywords

Medical experiments - IAC
Medical experiments - NIAC
Mutilation - IAC
Mutilation - other serious violations of laws and customs of war - NIAC
Scientific experiments - IAC
Scientific experiments - NIAC



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