Portugal

Adaptation of Criminal Legislation to ICC Statute

Chapter II
Crimes

Section II
War crimes

Article 12
War crimes involving the employment of prohibited means of warfare

1. Anyone who, in the context of an international armed conflict or a non-international armed conflict, employs weapons, projectiles and material and methods of warfare which are of a nature to cause superfluous injury or unnecessary suffering or which are inherently indiscriminate in violation of the international law of armed conflict, shall be punished with a term of imprisonment of 10 to 25 years.

Keywords

Employing weapons, projectiles and materials and methods of warfare which are inherently indiscriminate - IAC
Employing weapons, projectiles and materials and methods of warfare which cause superfluous injury or unnecessary suffering - IAC



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