Timor-Leste

Código Penal de Timor-Leste

BOOK II
SPECIAL PART

TITLE I
CRIMES AGAINST PEACE AND HUMANITY

CHAPTER I
CRIMES OF GENOCIDE AND CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY

Article 123. Genocide

1. Any person who, with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, commits any of the following :

a) Homicide or offence against the physical or mental integrity of members of the group;
b) By whatever means, acts that prevent members of the group from procreating or giving birth ;
c) Rape, sexual enslavement, forced prostitution, forced pregnancy, forced sterilization or any other form of sexual violence of comparable seriousness ;
d) Separation of members of the group into another group by violent means ;
e) Acts that prevent the group in a violent manner from settling or remaining in a geographic space that is, by tradition or historically, recognized as their own ;
f) Subjection of the group to cruel, degrading or inhumane conditions of existence and treatment, which may cause its total or partial destruction ;
g) Widespread confiscation or seizure of property owned by members of the group ;
h) Prohibition of members of the group from carrying out certain trade, industrial or professional activities ;
i) Spread of an epidemic that may cause the death of members of the group or offences to their physical integrity ;
j) Prohibition, omission or hindrance by any means from providing members of the group with humanitarian assistance required to combat epidemic situations or severe food shortages; is punishable with 15 to 30 years imprisonment.

2. Any person who, publicly and directly, incites the commission of any of the aforementioned acts is punishable with 5 to 15 years imprisonment.

Keywords

Genocide



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