The Special Part
Title I
Crimes and delicts against persons
Chapter I
Crimes against humankind
Other crimes against humankind
Art.175 – (1) Commission, during a generalised or systematic attack launched against the civil population, of any of the following acts :
• a) homicide ;
b) severe infringement upon physical integrity or physical or mental health ;
c) extermination ;
d) subjection to slavery ;
e) deportation or forced transfer of population ;
f) deprivation of freedom, without prior judgment by a court founded legally and that judged the case in observance of the fundamental judicial safeguards provided in the law ;
g) torture ;
h) rape, forced prostitution, forced pregnancy, forced sterilisation or any other form of sexual violence ;
i) discrimination of any group or any community for political, racial, national, ethnic, cultural, religious or sexual reasons ;
j) forced disappearances of persons ,
shall be punished by life detention or by severe detention from 15 to 25 years and the prohibition of certain rights.
(2) The same penalty shall sanction also the detonation of nuclear weapons or of any kind of nuclear explosive device.
1. For the purpose of this Statute, ‘crime against humanity’ means any of the following acts when committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population, with knowledge of the attack:
(a) Murder;
(b) Extermination;
(c) Enslavement;
(d) Deportation or forcible transfer of population;
(e) Imprisonment or other severe deprivation of physical liberty in violation of fundamental rules of international law;
(f) Torture;
(g) Rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced pregnancy, enforced sterilization, or any other form of sexual violence of comparable gravity;
(h) Persecution against any identifiable group or collectivity on political, racial, national, ethnic, cultural, religious, gender as defined in paragraph 3, or other grounds that are universally recognized as impermissible under international law, in connection with any act referred to in this paragraph or any crime within the jurisdiction of the Court;
(i) Enforced disappearance of persons;
(j) The crime of apartheid;
(k) Other inhumane acts of a similar character intentionally causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or to mental or physical health.