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 124. Crimes against humanity

Any person who, within the context of a widespread or systematic attack against any civilian population, commits acts that result in :

h) Persecution, construed as deprivation of the exercise of fundamental rights contrary to international law against a group or a collective entity due to politics, race, nationality, ethnicity, culture, religion, gender or for any other reason universally recognized as unacceptable under international law ;

Keywords

Persecution - crimes against humanity
Persecution against any identifiable collectivity on other grounds universally recognised as impermissible under international law - crimes against humanity
Persecution against any identifiable collectivity on political, racial, national, ethnic, cultural, religious, or gender grounds - crimes against humanity
Persecution against any identifiable group on other grounds universally recognised as impermissible under international law - crimes against humanity
Persecution against any identifiable group on political, racial, national, ethnic, cultural, religious, or gender grounds - crimes against humanity



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