Switzerland

Swiss Criminal Code

Book Two : Specific Provisions

Title Twelveter : War Crimes

Art. 264e

1 The penalty is a custodial sentence of not less than three years for any person who, in connection with an armed conflict :

a. causes severe pain or suffering or serious injury or danger, whether physical or mental, to a person protected by international humanitarian law by subjecting that person to a medical procedure that is not justified by the state of his or her health and which does comply with generally recognised medical principles ;
b. rapes a person of the female gender protected by international humanitarian law or, after she has been forcibly made pregnant, confines her unlawfully with the intent of affecting the ethnic composition of a population, forces a person to tolerate a sexual act of comparable severity or forces a person protected by international humanitarian law into prostitution or to be sterilised ;
c. subjects a person protected by international humanitarian law to especially humiliating and degrading treatment.

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Other serious violations of the laws and customs - NIAC



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