Timor-Leste

Código Penal de Timor-Leste

BOOK II
SPECIAL PART

TITLE I
CRIMES AGAINST PEACE AND HUMANITY

CHAPTER II
WAR CRIMES

Article 125. War crimes against individuals

1. Any person who, within the context of an armed conflict of an international or noninternational nature, commits against a person protected by international humanitarian law :

a) Homicide ;
b) Torture or cruel, degrading or inhumane treatment, including biological experiments ;
c) Acts causing serious suffering or serious aggression to physical integrity ;
d) Taking of hostages ;
e) Compels a person to serve in a hostile army or conscripts or enlists children under the age of 18 into the armed, military or paramilitary forces of a State, or into armed groups other than the armed, military or paramilitary forces of a State, or uses them to participate in hostilities ;
f) Serious, prolonged and unjustified restrictions on the liberty of persons ;
g) Deportation or transfer or unlawful confinement ;
h) Unjustified appropriation or destruction of property of high value ;
i) Renders and executes sentences, without previous fair and impartial trial ;

Keywords

Grave breaches - IAC



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