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Act on the Punishment of Crimes within the Jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court

Chapter 2 Punishment of Crimes within the jurisdiction of the Court

Article 9 (Crimes against humanity)
Any person who kills anyone by committing widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population pursuant to or in furtherance of a State or organizational policy to commit such attack shall be subject to capital punishment, imprisonment of life or no less than 7 years. Any person who commits any of the following acts in pursuant to or in furtherance of a State or organizational policy to commit widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population shall be subject to imprisonment of life or no less than 5 years.
1. Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life by depriving access to food and medicine, calculated to bring about the destruction of part of a population
2. Enslaving other person
3. Displacing or transferring population forcibly from the area in which they are lawfully present to other area, without grounds permitted under the International Criminal Court Statue
4. Imprisoning or severely depriving of physical liberty in violation of fundamental rules of the International Criminal Court Statue
5. Inflicting severe physical, mental pains or suffering intentionally upon a person in the custody in violation of fundamental rules of the International Criminal Court Statue without any justifiable reason
6. Committing sexual violence such as rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced pregnancy, enforced sterilization, or any other form of sexual violence of comparable gravity
7. Persecuting or restricting basic humane rights of any identifiable group or collectivity on political, racial, national, ethnic, cultural, religious, gender or other grounds that are universally recognized as impermissible under international law
8. Committing any of following acts with intent to removing a person or persons from the protection of the law for a prolonged period of time with the authorization, support or acquiescence.
a. Refusing to give information or providing wrong information on the fate or whereabouts of persons after the arrest, detention or abduction of the persons (hereafter `the arrest and others')
b. Any refusal by a person who is obliged to give information stated in Item a to give information or provide wrong information.
9. Inflicting physical, metal pains or suffering intentionally upon a person with any method not mentioned in subparagraph 1 through 8. Any person who commits any act referred in paragraph (1) or (2) in the context of an institutionalized regime of systematic oppression and domination by one racial group over any other racial group or groups and commits with the intention of maintaining that regime shall be subject to punishment that provided in each such paragraph.
Any person who commits any act referred in paragraph (2) or (3) (limited to acts in paragraph (2)) and results in a death shall be subject to punishment that provided in Paragraph 1.
Any person who attempts a crime in paragraph (1) through (3) shall be punished.

Keywords

Crimes against humanity



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