Unlawful confinement - IAC

Czech Republic

Czech republic - Criminal Procedure Code 1961 (2012) EN

PART TWO
SPECIAL PART

CHAPTER II
CRIMINAL OFFENCES AGAINST FREEDOM, PERSONAL AND PRIVACY RIGHTS AND CONFIDENTIALITY OF CORRESPONDENCE

Division 1
Criminal Offences against Freedom

Section 170 Illegal Confinement
(1) Whoever without authorisation imprisons or otherwise confines another person, shall be sentenced to imprisonment for two to eight years.

PART TWO
SPECIAL PART

CHAPTER XIII
CRIMINAL OFFENCES AGAINST HUMANITY, PEACE AND WAR CRIMES

Division 2
Criminal Offences against Peace and War Crimes

Section 413 Persecution of Population
(2) The same sentence shall be imposed to anyone who during a war or another armed conflict
b) unjustifiably delays the return of the civilian population or prisoners of war,

Rome Statute

Article 8 War crimes

2. For the purpose of this Statute, ‘war crimes’ means:

(a) Grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, namely, any of the following acts against persons or property protected under the provisions of the relevant Geneva Convention:

(vii) Unlawful deportation or transfer or unlawful confinement;