Article 403. Crimes against humanity
Crimes against humanity, that is, any act committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack against the civilian population or civilians, expressed in murder, mass extermination, enslavement, deportation, unlawful restriction of liberty, torture, rape, sexual slavery, forced prostitution, forced pregnancy, forced sterilization of people, persecution of a group of persons on political, racial, national, ethnic, cultural, religious, sexual or other grounds, apartheid and other inhumane acts causing serious harm to the physical and/or mental state of a person, -
shall be punishable by imprisonment for a term of twelve to fifteen years or by life imprisonment.
1. For the purpose of this Statute, ‘crime against humanity’ means any of the following acts when committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population, with knowledge of the attack:
(f) Torture;
2. For the purpose of paragraph 1:
(e) ‘Torture’ means the intentional infliction of severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, upon a person in the custody or under the control of the accused; except that torture shall not include pain or suffering arising only from, inherent in or incidental to, lawful sanctions;