Treatment of prisoners - international treaty standards

Republic of Croatia

Croatia - Criminal Code 1997 (2008) EN

CROATIA CRIMINAL CODE

GENERAL PART

CHAPTER ONE (i.) BASIC PROVISIONS

Article 7

In determining the contents of criminal sanctions and the manner of their application, the freedoms and rights of the perpetrator of a criminal offense may be limited only to a degree corresponding to the type of the criminal sanction applied and its special purpose determined by law, without causing corporal pain or mental suffering, inhuman or degrading treatment, while observing human dignity and personality.

Rome Statute

Article 103 Role of States in enforcement of sentences of imprisonment

3. In exercising its discretion to make a designation under paragraph 1, the Court shall take into account the following:

(b) The application of widely accepted international treaty standards governing the treatment of prisoners;