Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group

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
Crimes of genocide

Article 607

1. Those who, aiming to fully or partially exterminate a national, ethnic, racial, religious or specific group determined by the disability of its members, commit any of the following acts, shall be punished :

2. With imprisonment from fifteen to twenty years, if they were to sexually assault any of its members or cause any of the injuries foreseen in Article 149 ;

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
Offences of genocide

Article 607
1. Those who carry out any of the following acts with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group shall be sentenced as follows:
3rd. To eight to fifteen years’ imprisonment if they subject the group or any of its members to living conditions that endanger their life or damage gravely their health, or when they produce any of the injuries contained in Article 150.

TITLE XXIV

Offences against the International Community

CHAPTER II

Offences of genocide

Article 607

5th. To four to eight years’ imprisonment in the event of any injury other than those referred to in the 1st and 3rd paragraphs of this Article.

Rome Statute

Article 6 Genocide

For the purpose of this Statute, ‘genocide’ means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;