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 9a (990/2009)
Torture
If a public official causes another person strong physical or mental suffering
1) to get him or her or another person to confess or to provide information,
2) to punish him or her for something that he or she or some other person has done or is suspected of having done,
3) to intimidate or coerce him or her or another person, or
4) on the basis of race, national or ethnic origin, colour, language, sex, age, family relations, sexual orientation, genetic inheritance, disability, state of health, religion, societal opinion, political or vocational activities or other comparable factors, the public official shall be sentenced for torture to imprisonment for at least two and at most twelve years and, in addition, to be removed from office.
A public official who explicitly or implicitly approves an act referred to in subsection 1 committed by a subordinate or by a person who otherwise is within the effective authority and control of the public official shall also be sentenced for torture.
An attempt is punishable.
The provisions of this section concerning public officials also apply to persons holding a public position of trust and to persons exercising public authority and, with the exception of removal from office, also to employees of public sector entities and to foreign public officials.
1. In respect of an investigation under this Statute, a person:
(b) Shall not be subjected to any form of coercion, duress or threat, to torture or to any other form of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment;