Humiliating and degrading treatment - IAC

Finland

Finland - Constitution 1999 (2018) EN

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.

Finland - Criminal Code 1894 (2015) EN

Chapter 11 – War crimes and crimes against humanity

Section 6 - Aggravated war crime

(1) If the war crime is committed as part of a plan or policy or as part of extensive war crimes and

(3) the offence is committed in an especially brutal, cruel or degrading manner,

Rome Statute

Article 8 War crimes

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

(b) Other serious violations of the laws and customs applicable in international armed conflict, within the established framework of international law, namely, any of the following acts:

(xxi) Committing outrages upon personal dignity, in particular humiliating and degrading treatment;