BOOK II
SPECIAL PART
TITLE I
CRIMES AGAINST PEACE AND HUMANITY
CHAPTER I
CRIMES OF GENOCIDE AND CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY
Article 124. Crimes against humanity
Any person who, within the context of a widespread or systematic attack against any civilian population, commits acts that result in :
i) Enforced disappearance of persons, construed as arrest, detention or abduction of persons by, or with authorization, support or acquiescence of, a State or political organization, followed by a refusal to acknowledge said deprivation of freedom or to provide information regarding the fate or whereabouts of said persons, with the intention of denying them protection of the law for a prolonged period of time ;
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:
(i) Enforced disappearance of persons;
2. For the purpose of paragraph 1:
(i) ‘Enforced disappearance of persons’ means the arrest, detention or abduction of persons by, or with the authorization, support or acquiescence of, a State or a political organization, followed by a refusal to acknowledge that deprivation of freedom or to give information on the fate or whereabouts of those persons, with the intention of removing them from the protection of the law for a prolonged period of time.