COSTA RICA - Criminal Prosecution to Punish War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity No. 8272
Article 1. Article 7 of the Penal Code shall hereby be amended as follows:
"Article 7. Independently of the legislation in force in the territory on which the punishable crime is committed, and independently of the perpetrator’s nationality, those who commit acts of piracy or genocide; falsify coins, credit instruments, bank notes or any other bearer papers; are involved in the slave trade or in trafficking women or children; are involved in trafficking drugs or obscene material; or who commit any other punishable acts in violation of human rights and international humanitarian law as recognised in the treaties to which Costa Rica is party or in this Code, shall be prosecuted under Costa Rican law."
1. The jurisdiction of the Court shall be limited to the most serious crimes of concern to the international community as a whole. The Court has jurisdiction in accordance with this Statute with respect to the following crimes:
(a) The crime of genocide;