Spain

Criminal Code

BOOK I
General provisions on felonies and misdemeanours, the persons responsible, the penalties, security measures and other consequences of criminal offences

TITLE XXIV
Crimes against the International Community

CHAPTER III
On crimes against protected persons and assets in the event of armed conflict

Article 612

Whoever perpetrates the following acts during an armed conflict shall be punished with a sentence of imprisonment of three to seven years, without prejudice to the relevant punishment for the results caused :

3. Severely abuses, deprives or does not ensure the essential food or necessary medical assistance to any protected person, or subjects him to humiliating or degrading treatment, fails to inform him of his situation without justified delay, and in a comprehensible manner, imposes collective punishment for individual acts, or infringes the requisites for accommodation of women and families, or for special of women and children established in the international treaties to which Spain is a party, and in particular, who recruits or enrols persons under the age of eighteen or uses them to participate directly in the hostilities ;

Keywords

Conscripting children under 15 into armed forces or groups - NIAC
Conscripting children under 15 into the national armed forces - IAC
Cruel treatment - NIAC
Enlisting children under 15 into armed forces or groups - NIAC
Enlisting children under 15 into the national armed forces - IAC
Humiliating and degrading treatment - IAC
Humiliating and degrading treatment - NIAC
Intentionally starving as method of warfare - IAC
Outrages upon personal dignity - IAC
Outrages upon personal dignity - NIAC
Unique provision - IAC
Using children under 15 to participate actively in hostilities - IAC
Using children under 15 to participate actively in hostilities - NIAC



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