National penalties - genocide

Hungary

Hungary - Criminal Code 1978 (2012) EN

SPECIAL PART
CHAPTER XIII
CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY

Genocide

Section 142
(1) Any person who - with the ultimate aim of the destruction, in whole or in part, of a national, ethnic, racial or religious group:
a) murders the members of the group;
b) causes serious bodily or mental injury to the members of the group;
c) constrains the group into living conditions threatening the demise of the group on the whole
or certain members thereof;
d) takes any action aimed to prevent reproduction within the group;
e) abducts the children of the group and installs them into another group;
is guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment between ten to twenty years or with life imprisonment.
(2) Any person who engages in preparations for genocide shall be punishable by imprisonment between two to eight years.

Rome Statute

Article 77 Applicable penalties

1. Subject to article 110, the Court may impose one of the following penalties on a person convicted of a crime referred to in article 5 of this Statute:

(a) Imprisonment for a specified number of years, which may not exceed a maximum of 30 years; or

(b) A term of life imprisonment when justified by the extreme gravity of the crime and the individual circumstances of the convicted person.

2. In addition to imprisonment, the Court may order:

(a) A fine under the criteria provided for in the Rules of Procedure and Evidence;

(b) A forfeiture of proceeds, property and assets derived directly or indirectly from that crime, without prejudice to the rights of bona fide third parties.