Humiliating and degrading treatment - IAC

Federal Republic of Germany

Germany - Code of Crimes against International Law 2002 EN

Article 1 Code of Crimes against International Law (CCAIL)

Part 2 Crimes against International Law

Chapter 2 War crimes

Section 8 War crimes against persons

(1) Whoever in connection with an international armed conflict or with an armed conflict not of an international character,

9. treats a person who is to be protected under international humanitarian law in a gravely humiliating or degrading manner,

shall be punished with imprisonment for not less than one year.

Rome Statute

Article 8 War crimes

2. For the purpose of this Statute, ‘war crimes’ means:

(b) Other serious violations of the laws and customs applicable in international armed conflict, within the established framework of international law, namely, any of the following acts:

(xxi) Committing outrages upon personal dignity, in particular humiliating and degrading treatment;