Special Part
Section 13.
Crimes against peace and human security
Chapter 33.
Crimes against peace and human security
Article 392. Crimes against human security.
Deportation, illegal arrest, enslavement, mass and regular execution without trial, kidnapping followed by disappearance, torture or cruel treatment of civilians, due to racial, national, ethnic identity, political views and religion, is punished with imprisonment for 7-15 years or for life.
Article 135. Crimes Against Humanity
1. Committing any of the following actions during a large-scale or regular attack on civilians:
9) forced disappearance of people-
shall be punished by imprisonment for a term of twelve to twenty 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:
(i) Enforced disappearance of persons;
2. For the purpose of paragraph 1:
(i) ‘Enforced disappearance of persons’ means the arrest, detention or abduction of persons by, or with the authorization, support or acquiescence of, a State or a political organization, followed by a refusal to acknowledge that deprivation of freedom or to give information on the fate or whereabouts of those persons, with the intention of removing them from the protection of the law for a prolonged period of time.