Genocide

Estonia

Estonia - Penal Code 2001 (2020) EN

Part 1 GENERAL PART
Chapter 6 LIMITATION PERIODS

§ 81. Limitation period of offence
(2) Crimes of aggression, crimes of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and criminal offences for which life imprisonment is prescribed do not expire.

Part 2 SPECIAL PART
Chapter 8 OFFENCES AGAINST HUMANITY AND INTERNATIONAL SECURITY
Division 2 Offences Against Humanity

§ 90. Genocide
(1) Killing or torturing, with the intention of destroying, in whole or in part, of members of a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, a group resisting occupation or any other social group, causing of health damage to members of the group, imposing of coercive measures preventing childbirth within the group or forcibly transferring of children of the group, or subjecting of members of such group to living conditions which have caused the risk of total or partial physical destruction of the group,
is punishable by eight to twenty years’ imprisonment or life imprisonment.
(2) The same act, if committed by a legal person, is punishable by a pecuniary punishment.

Rome Statute

Article 5 Crimes within the jurisdiction of the Court

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;