Article 427
Whoever, in violation of the rules of international law, as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population, orders any of the following: murders; deliberately inflicting on the population or parts thereof conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; enslavement; forcible transfer of population; torture; rape; enforced prostitution; forced pregnancy or enforced sterilization with the intent of affecting the ethnic composition of the population; persecution or expulsion on political, religious, racial, national, ethnic, cultural, gender or other grounds; detention or abduction of persons followed by a refusal to acknowledge that deprivation of freedom with the intention of removing them from the protection of the law; oppression and domination by one racial group over any other racial group; or other inhumane acts of a similar character intentionally causing great suffering, or serious injury to health; or who commits any of the foregoing acts shall be punished by a prison sentence for a term not shorter than five years or a long-term prison sentence.
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;