Chapter 2 - Basic rights and liberties
Section 7 -The right to life, personal liberty and integrity
No one shall be sentenced to death, tortured or otherwise treated in a manner violating human dignity.
Chapter 11 (212/2008)
War crimes and crimes against humanity
Section 6 (212/2008)
Aggravated war crime
If a war crime is committed as part of a plan or policy or as part of widespread war crimes and
1) it is directed against a large group of people,
2) it causes very serious and extensive damage,
3) it is committed in a particularly brutal, cruel or humiliating manner, or
4) it is committed in a particularly premeditated or systematic manner, and the offence is also aggravated when assessed as a whole, the perpetrator shall be sentenced for an aggravated war crime to imprisonment for at least eight years or for life.
An attempt is punishable.
2. For the purpose of this Statute, ‘war crimes’ means:
(c) In the case of an armed conflict not of an international character, serious violations of article 3 common to the four Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, namely, any of the following acts committed against persons taking no active part in the hostilities, including members of armed forces who have laid down their arms and those placed hors de combat by sickness, wounds, detention or any other cause:
(ii) Committing outrages upon personal dignity, in particular humiliating and degrading treatment;