Unlawful confinement - IAC

Georgia

Georgia - Criminal Code 1999 (2024) EN

Article 411 – Intentional breach of the provisions of the international humanitarian law during armed conflicts

2. Intentional breach of the provisions of the international humanitarian law during international or domestic armed conflicts against the persons who do not participate in military actions or who do not hold instruments of defence as well as against the wounded, the sick, medical personnel and the clergy, sanitary units and vehicles, prisoners of war, civilians, civilian population present in the occupied territory or in the area of military actions, refugees, apatrides, other persons who are under protection during military actions, in particular:

f) deportation or other unlawful expulsion or imprisonment of persons who are under protection–

shall be punished by imprisonment for a term of fifteen to twenty years or by life imprisonment.

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:

(vii) Unlawful deportation or transfer or unlawful confinement;