Portugal

Adaptation of Criminal Legislation to ICC Statute

Chapter II
Crimes

Section II
War crimes

Article 10
War crimes against persons

1. Anyone who, in the context of an international armed conflict or a non-international armed conflict, commits any of the following acts against a person protected by international humanitarian law:

(c) Subjecting persons who are in the power of an adverse party to physical mutilation or to medical or scientific experiments of any kind which are neither justified by the medical, dental or hospital treatment of the person concerned nor carried out in his or her interest, and which cause death to or seriously endanger the health of such person or persons;

shall be punished with a term of imprisonment of 10 to 25 years.

Keywords

Medical experiments - IAC
Medical experiments - NIAC
Mutilation - IAC
Mutilation - other serious violations of laws and customs of war - NIAC
Mutilation - serious violation of Common Article 3 - NIAC
Scientific experiments - IAC
Scientific experiments - NIAC



EDIT.