Enforced disappearance - crimes against humanity

Czech Republic

Czech republic - Criminal Code 2010 (2011) EN

PART TWO SPECIAL PART
CHAPTER XIII CRIMINAL OFFENDES AGAINST HUMANITY, PEACE AND WAR CRIMES
Division 1 Criminal Offences Against Humanity

Section 401 Attack against Humanity
(1) Whoever commits within an extensive and systematic attack aimed against civilians
a) extermination of people,
b) enslavement,
c) deportation or forced transfer of a group of civilians ,
d) rape , sexual slavery , forced prostitution , forced pregnancy , forced sterilisation or other
forms of sexual violence ,
e) persecution of a group of civilians on political, race, national, ethnic, cultural or
religious grounds, on sex or another similar grounds,
f) apartheid or another similar segregation or discrimination,
g) illegal restraint, kidnapping to an unknown location or any other restriction of
personal freedom with following involuntary disappearance of persons,
h) torture,
i) murder, or
j) another inhumane act of similar nature,
shall be sentenced to imprisonment for twelve to twenty years or to an exceptional sentence of imprisonment .
(2) Preparation is criminal.

Czech republic - Criminal Procedure Code 1961 (2012) EN

PART TWO
SPECIAL PART

CHAPTER XIII
CRIMINAL OFFENCES AGAINST HUMANITY, PEACE AND WAR CRIMES

Division 1
Criminal Offences Against Humanity

Section 401 Attack against Humanity
(1) Whoever commits within an extensive and systematic attack aimed against civilians
g) illegal restraint, kidnapping to an unknown location or any other restriction of personal freedom with following involuntary disappearance of persons,

Rome Statute

Article 7 Crimes against humanity

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.