Inhuman 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 (2021) EN

Chapter 11 (212/2008)
War crimes and crimes against humanity

Section 5 (212/2008)
War crime

A person who commits another act that constitutes a war crime under article 8 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (Finnish Treaty Series 56/2002) or in another manner violates the provisions of an international treaty on war, armed conflict or occupation that is binding on Finland or the generally recognised and established laws and customs of war in accordance with international law shall also be sentenced for a war crime.

Rome Statute

Article 8 War crimes

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

(a) Grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, namely, any of the following acts against persons or property protected under the provisions of the relevant Geneva Convention:

(ii) Torture or inhuman treatment, including biological experiments;