Norway

Penal Code Chapter 16 Sections 101-110

Chapter 16. Genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes

Section 102. Crimes against humanity

Any person is liable to punishment for a crime against humanity who, as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population,

(a) kills a person,

(b) exterminates a population in whole or in part, including by inflicting on it or parts of it conditions of life calculated to bring about the destruction of the population in whole or in part,

(c) enslaves a person,

(d) deports or forcibly transfers a population in violation of international law/without grounds permitted under international law,

(e) imprisons or otherwise severely deprives a person of physical liberty in violation of fundamental rules of international law,

(f) tortures a person in his custody or under his control by inflicting on the person severe mental or physical pain or suffering,

(g) subjects a person to rape, sexual slavery or enforced prostitution, forced pregnancy, enforced sterilisation or any other form of sexual violence of comparable gravity,

(h) subjects an identifiable group to persecution by depriving one or more members of the group of fundamental human rights on political, racial, national, ethnic, cultural, religious, gender-related or other grounds contrary to international law,

(i) on behalf of, or with the consent, support or authorisation/authorisation, support or acquiescence* of a State or a political organisation contributes to the enforced disappearance of a person, with the intention of removing that person from the protection of the law for a prolonged period of time,

(j) in the context of an institutionalised regime of systematic oppression and domination by one racial group over one or more other racial groups/any other racial group or groups* commits a crime of apartheid by carrying out inhumane acts of a character like or similar to that of acts falling within the scope of this section with the intention of maintaining that regime, or

(k) commits another inhumane act of a similar character that causes great suffering or severe injury to body or health.

The penalty for a crime against humanity is imprisonment for a term not exceeding 30 years.

Keywords

Crimes against humanity



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