Widespread or systematic attack - crimes against humanity

Montenegro

Montenegro - Criminal Code 2003 (2018) (EN)

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CRIMINAL OFFENCES AGAINST HUMANITY AND OTHER VALUES GUARANTEED BY INTERNATIONAL LAW

Crimes against humanity

Article 427
Anyone who by breaching the rules of international law, within the limits of a wider or systematic attack against civilian population, orders any of the following : murders ; placing the population or its part under such living conditions as to bring about their complete or partial extermination ; enslavement ; forced displacement ; torture ; rape ; coercion to prostitution ; coercion to pregnancy or sterilization with a view to changing the ethnic composition of the population ; persecution or expulsion on political, religious, racial, national, ethnic, cultural, sexual or any other grounds ; detention or abduction of persons without disclosing information thereon so as to deprive them of legal assistance ; oppression of a racial group or establishment of domination of one such group over another ; or any other similar inhuman acts intended to cause serious suffering or seriously harm health ; or who commits any of the said offences shall be punished by a prison term not shorter than five years or by a forty year prison term.

Rome Statute

Article 7 Crimes against humanity

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:

(a) Murder;

(b) Extermination;

(c) Enslavement;

(d) Deportation or forcible transfer of population;

(e) Imprisonment or other severe deprivation of physical liberty in violation of fundamental rules of international law;

(f) Torture;

(g) Rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced pregnancy, enforced sterilization, or any other form of sexual violence of comparable gravity;

(h) Persecution against any identifiable group or collectivity on political, racial, national, ethnic, cultural, religious, gender as defined in paragraph 3, or other grounds that are universally recognized as impermissible under international law, in connection with any act referred to in this paragraph or any crime within the jurisdiction of the Court;

(i) Enforced disappearance of persons;

(j) The crime of apartheid;

(k) Other inhumane acts of a similar character intentionally causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or to mental or physical health.