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 :

i) Enforced disappearance of persons, construed as arrest, detention or abduction of persons by, or with authorization, support or acquiescence of, a State or political organization, followed by a refusal to acknowledge said deprivation of freedom or to provide information regarding the fate or whereabouts of said persons, with the intention of denying them protection of the law for a prolonged period of time ;

Keywords

Enforced disappearance - crimes against humanity



EDIT.