Chapter 2 Punishment of Crimes within the jurisdiction of the Court
Article 9 (Crimes against humanity)
Any person who kills anyone by committing widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population pursuant to or in furtherance of a State or organizational policy to commit such attack shall be subject to capital punishment, imprisonment of life or no less than 7 years. Any person who commits any of the following acts in pursuant to or in furtherance of a State or organizational policy to commit widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population shall be subject to imprisonment of life or no less than 5 years.
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.