Apartheid - crimes against humanity

Spain

Criminal Code 1995 (2013)

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 II BIS
On crimes against humanity

Article 607 bis

1. Conviction for crimes against humanity shall befall whoever commits the acts foreseen in the following Section as part of a widespread or systematic attack on the civil population or against part thereof.

In all cases, committing such acts shall be deemed a crime against humanity when :

2. In the context of an institutionalised regime of systematic oppression and domination of a racial group over one or more racial groups and with the intention of maintaining such a regime.

Provisions of the Spanish Criminal Code Concerning International Crimes. Integrated Text Containing the Amendments Introduced by the Ley Organica 15/2003 Implementing the Statute of the International Criminal Court 2003

TITLE XXIV

Offences against the International Community

CHAPTER II BIS

Crimes against humanity

Article 607 bis

1. Those who commit the offences set out below as part of a generalized or systematic attack against the whole or part of the civilian population shall be guilty of crimes against humanity.

2nd. In the context of institutionalised oppression and systematic domination of one racial group over one or more racial groups and where it is intended to maintain this situation.

Rome Statute

Article 7 Crimes against humanity

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:

(j) The crime of apartheid;

2. For the purpose of paragraph 1:

(h) ‘The crime of apartheid’ means inhumane acts of a character similar to those referred to in paragraph 1, committed in the context of an institutionalized regime of systematic oppression and domination by one racial group over any other racial group or groups and committed with the intention of maintaining that regime;