PART I – PRELIMINARY
Interpretation
“cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment” means a deliberate and aggravated treatment or punishment not amounting to torture, inflicted by a person in authority or the agent of the person in authority against a person under his or her custody, causing suffering, gross humiliation or debasement to the person;
PART VI – SERVICE OFFENCES
Offences concerning Courts Martial and other Authorities
133A. Prohibition of torture or cruel treatment
(1) A member of the Defence Forces shall not subject any person to torture, cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.
(2) A member of the Defence Forces who subjects a person to torture, cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding ten million shillings or imprisonment for a term not exceeding twenty-five years or to both.
(3) A member of the Defence Forces who subjects a person to cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding five million shillings or imprisonment for a term not exceeding fifteen years or to both.
THIRD SCHEDULE
GENEVA CONVENTION RELATIVE TO THE TREATMENT OF PRISONERS OF WAR DATED THE 12TH AUGUST, 1949
PART VI – EXECUTION OF THE CONVENTION
SECTION I – GENERAL PROVISIONS
Article 130
II. Grave breaches
Grave breaches to which the preceding Article relates shall be those involving any of the following acts, if committed against persons or property protected by the Convention: wilful killing, torture or inhuman treatment, including biological experiments, wilfully causing great suffering or serious injury to body or health, compelling a prisoner of war to serve in the forces of the hostile Power, or wilfully depriving a prisoner of war of the rights of fair and regular trial prescribed in this Convention.
FOURTH SCHEDULE
GENEVA CONVENTION RELATIVE TO THE PROTECTION OF CIVILIAN PERSONS IN TIME OF WAR DATED THE 12TH AUGUST, 1949
PART IV – EXECUTION OF THE CONVENTION
SECTION I – GENERAL PROVISIONS
Article 147
II. Grave breaches
Grave breaches to which the preceding Article relates shall be those involving any of the following acts, if committed against persons or property protected by the present Convention: wilful killing, torture or inhuman treatment, including biological experiments, wilfully causing great suffering or serious injury to body or health, unlawful deportation or transfer or unlawful confinement of a protected person, compelling a protected person to serve in the forces of a hostile Power, or wilfully depriving a protected person of the rights of fair and regular trial prescribed in the present Convention, taking of hostages and extensive destruction and appropriation of property, not justified by military necessity and carried out unlawfully and wantonly.
PART I—PRELIMINARY
International Crimes
6. (4) In this section—
"war crime" has the meaning ascribed to it in paragraph 2 of article 8 of the Rome Statute.
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;