PART ONE GENERAL PART
CHAPTER I COMPETENCY OF CRIMINAL LAWS
Division 3 Local Applicability
Section 7 Principle of Protection and Principle of Universality
(1) The law of the Czech Republic shall apply to assessment of criminality of Torture and other cruel and inhumane treatment (Section 149), Forgery and alteration of money (Section 233), Uttering forged and altered money (Section 235), Manufacture and possession of forgery equipment (Section 236), Unauthorised production of money (Section 237), Subversion of the Republic (Section 310), Terrorist attack (Section 311), Terror (Section 312), Sabotage (Section 314), Espionage (Section 316), Violence against public authority (Section 323), Violence against a public official (Section 325), Forgery and alteration of public documents (Section 348), Participation in organised criminal group pursuant to Section 361 (2) and (3), Genocide (Section 400),), Attack against humanity (Section 401) ,), Apartheid and discrimination against groups of people (Section 402), Preparation of offensive war (Section 406), Use of prohibited means and methods of combat (Section 411), War cruelty (Section 412) ,), Persecution of population (Section 413), Pillage in the area of military operations (Section 414), Abuse of internationally and state recognised symbols (Section 415) , ), Abuse of flag and armistice (Section 416) and Harming a conciliator (Section 417), even when such a criminal offence was committed abroad by a foreign national or a person with no nationality, who has not been granted permanent residence in the territory of the Czech Republic.
(2) The law of the Czech Republic shall also apply to assessment of criminality of an act committed abroad against a Czech national or a person without a nationality, who has been granted permanent residence in the territory of the Czech Republic, if the act is criminal in the place of its commission, or if the place of its commission is not subject to any criminal jurisdiction. .
PART TWO SPECIAL PART
CHAPTER IX CRIMINAL OFFENCES AGAINST THE CZECH REPUBLIC, FOREIGN STATES AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS
Division 8 Other Forms of Criminal Cooperation
Section 366 Favouritism
(1) Whoever assists an offender of a crime with the intention to facilitate his/her evasion of criminal prosecution, punishment or protective measure or execution thereof, shall be sentenced to imprisonment for up to four years; however, if he/she assists an offender of a criminal offence, for which the Criminal Code stipulates a lighter punishment, he/she shall be sentenced to this lighter punishment.
(2) Whoever commits the act referred to in Sub-section (1) in the favour of a close person shall not be criminally liable, unless he/she did so with the intention to
(a) assist a person who committed a criminal offence of Treason (Section 309), Subversion of the Republic (Section 310), Terrorist attack (Section 311), Terror (Section 312), Genocide (Section 400) , Attacks against humanity (Section 401), Apartheid and discrimination against a group of people (Section 402), Preparation for aggressive war (Section 406), Use of forbidden means and methods of combat (Section 411), War cruelty (Section 412), Persecution of population (Section 413), Pillage in the area of military operations (Section 414) or Abuse of internationally and state recognised symbols (Section 415) , or
(b)obtain material profit for him-/herself or for another.
PART TWO SPECIAL PART
CHAPTER XIII CRIMINAL OFFENDES AGAINST HUMANITY, PEACE AND WAR CRIMES
Division 1 Criminal Offences Against Humanity
Section 401 Attack against Humanity
(1) Whoever commits within an extensive and systematic attack aimed against civilians
a) extermination of people,
b) enslavement,
c) deportation or forced transfer of a group of civilians ,
d) rape , sexual slavery , forced prostitution , forced pregnancy , forced sterilisation or other
forms of sexual violence ,
e) persecution of a group of civilians on political, race, national, ethnic, cultural or
religious grounds, on sex or another similar grounds,
f) apartheid or another similar segregation or discrimination,
g) illegal restraint, kidnapping to an unknown location or any other restriction of
personal freedom with following involuntary disappearance of persons,
h) torture,
i) murder, or
j) another inhumane act of similar nature,
shall be sentenced to imprisonment for twelve to twenty years or to an exceptional sentence of imprisonment .
(2) Preparation is criminal.
PART TWO SPECIAL PART
CHAPTER XIII CRIMINAL OFFENDES AGAINST HUMANITY, PEACE AND WAR CRIMES
Division 1 Criminal Offences Against Humanity
Section 402 Apartheid and Discrimination against a Group of People
(1) Whoever practises apartheid or racial, ethnic, national, religious or class segregation or discrimination against other similar groups of people, shall be sentenced to imprisonment for five to twelve years.
(2) An offender shall be sentenced to imprisonment for ten to twenty years or to an exceptional sentence of imprisonment, if he/she
a) exposes such a group of people to difficult life conditions by the act referred to in Sub- section (1),
b) exposes such a group of people to inhumane or humiliating treatment by such an act.
(3) Preparation is criminal.
PART TWO SPECIAL PART
CHAPTER XIII CRIMINAL OFFENDES AGAINST HUMANITY, PEACE AND WAR CRIMES
Section 413 Persecution of Population
(1) Whoever is responsible for apartheid during a war or another armed conflict or commits other inhumane acts resulting from racial, ethnic, national, religious, class or similar discrimination, or terrorises the civilian population with violence or threat of its use, shall be sentenced to imprisonment for five to fifteen years.
(2) The same sentence shall be imposed to anyone who during a war or another armed conflict
a) destroys or seriously disrupts supply of basic living needs of the civilian population in
the occupied territory or the contact zone, or wilfully fails to provide necessary
assistance to the population for their survival,
b) unjustifiably delays the return of the civilian population or prisoners of war,
c) unjustifiably relocates or deports the civilian population from the occupied territory,
d) settles the occupied territory with a population from his/her own state,
e) drafts children for service with weapons, or
f) wilfully makes it impossible for the civilian population or prisoners of war to be
judged on their offence by an impartial court trial.
(3) An offender shall be sentenced to imprisonment for ten to twenty years or to an exceptional sentence of imprisonment, if he/she causes by the act referred to in Sub-section (1) or (2)
a) grievous bodily harm, oror b) death.
(4) Preparation is criminal.
PART ONE
GENERAL PART
CHAPTER I
COMPETENCY OF CRIMINAL LAWS
Division 3
Local Applicability
Section 7 Principle of Protection and Principle of Universality
(1) The law of the Czech Republic shall apply to assessment of criminality of Torture and other cruel and inhumane treatment (Section 149), Forgery and alteration of money (Section 233), Uttering forged and altered money (Section 235), Manufacture and possession of forgery equipment (Section 236), Unauthorised production of money (Section 237), Subversion of the Republic (Section 310), Terrorist attack (Section 311), Terror (Section 312), Sabotage (Section 314), Espionage (Section 316), Violence against public authority (Section 323), Violence against a public official (Section 325), Forgery and alteration of public documents (Section 348), Participation in organised criminal group pursuant to Section 361 (2) and (3), Genocide (Section 400), Attack against humanity (Section 401), Apartheid and discrimination against groups of people (Section 402), Preparation of offensive war (Section 406), Use of prohibited means and methods of combat (Section 411), War cruelty (Section 412), Persecution of population (Section 413), Pillage in the area of military operations (Section 414), Abuse of internationally and state recognised symbols (Section 415), Abuse of flag and armistice (Section 416) and Harming a conciliator (Section 417), even when such a criminal offence was committed abroad by a foreign national or a person with no nationality, who has not been granted permanent residence in the territory of the Czech Republic.
PART TWO
SPECIAL PART
CHAPTER X
CRIMINAL OFFENCES AGAINST ORDER IN PUBLIC MATTERS
Division 8
Other Forms of Criminal Cooperation
Section 366 Favouritism
(2) Whoever commits the act referred to in Sub-section (1) in the favour of a close person shall not be criminally liable, unless he/she did so with the intention to
(a) assist a person who committed a criminal offence of Treason (Section 309), Subversion of the Republic (Section 310), Terrorist attack (Section 311), Terror (Section 312), Genocide (Section 400), Attacks against humanity (Section 401), Apartheid and discrimination against a group of people (Section 402), Preparation for aggressive war (Section 406), Use of forbidden means and methods of combat (Section 411), War cruelty (Section 412), Persecution of population (Section 413), Pillage in the area of military operations (Section 414) or Abuse of internationally and state recognised symbols (Section 415), or
(b)obtain material profit for him-/herself or for another.
PART TWO
SPECIAL PART
CHAPTER XIII
CRIMINAL OFFENCES AGAINST HUMANITY, PEACE AND WAR CRIMES
Division 1
Criminal Offences Against Humanity
Section 401 Attack against Humanity
(1) Whoever commits within an extensive and systematic attack aimed against civilians
a) extermination of people,
b) enslavement,
c) deportation or forced transfer of a group of civilians,
d) rape, sexual slavery, forced prostitution, forced pregnancy, forced sterilisation or other forms of sexual violence,
e) persecution of a group of civilians on political, race, national, ethnic, cultural or religious grounds, on sex or another similar grounds,
f) apartheid or another similar segregation or discrimination,
g) illegal restraint, kidnapping to an unknown location or any other restriction of personal freedom with following involuntary disappearance of persons,
h) torture,
i) murder, or
j) another inhumane act of similar nature,
shall be sentenced to imprisonment for twelve to twenty years or to an exceptional sentence of imprisonment.
(2) Preparation is criminal
1. La competencia de la Corte se limitará a los crímenes más graves de trascendencia para la comunidad internacional en su conjunto. La Corte tendrá competencia, de conformidad con el presente Estatuto, respecto de los siguientes crímenes:
(b) Los crímenes de lesa humanidad;
1. A los efectos del presente Estatuto, se entenderá por "crimen de lesa humanidad" cualquiera de los actos siguientes cuando se cometa como parte de un ataque generalizado o sistemático contra una población civil y con conocimiento de dicho ataque:
(a) Asesinato;
(b) Exterminio;
(c) Esclavitud;
(d) Deportación o traslado forzoso de población;
(e) Encarcelación u otra privación grave de la libertad física en violación de normas fundamentales de derecho internacional;
(f) Tortura;
(g) Violación, esclavitud sexual, prostitución forzada, embarazo forzado, esterilización forzada o cualquier otra forma de violencia sexual de gravedad comparable;
(h) Persecución de un grupo o colectividad con identidad propia fundada en motivos políticos, raciales, nacionales, étnicos, culturales, religiosos, de género definido en el párrafo 3, u otros motivos universalmente reconocidos como inaceptables con arreglo al derecho internacional, en conexión con cualquier acto mencionado en el presente párrafo o con cualquier crimen de la competencia de la Corte;
(i) Desaparición forzada de personas;
(j) El crimen de apartheid;
(k) Otros actos inhumanos de carácter similar que causen intencionalmente grandes sufrimientos o atenten gravemente contra la integridad física o la salud mental o física.
2. A los efectos del párrafo 1:
(a) Por "ataque contra una población civil" se entenderá una línea de conducta que implique la comisión múltiple de actos mencionados en el párrafo 1 contra una población civil, de conformidad con la política de un Estado o de una organización de cometer ese ataque o para promover esa política;
(b) El "exterminio" comprenderá la imposición intencional de condiciones de vida, entre otras, la privación del acceso a alimentos o medicinas, entre otras, encaminadas a causar la destrucción de parte de una población;
(c) Por "esclavitud" se entenderá el ejercicio de los atributos del derecho de propiedad sobre una persona, o de algunos de ellos, incluido el ejercicio de esos atributos en el tráfico de personas, en particular mujeres y niños;
(d) Por "deportación o traslado forzoso de población" se entenderá el desplazamiento forzoso de las personas afectadas, por expulsión u otros actos coactivos, de la zona en que estén legítimamente presentes, sin motivos autorizados por el derecho internacional;
(e) Por "tortura" se entenderá causar intencionalmente dolor o sufrimientos graves, ya sean físicos o mentales, a una persona que el acusado tenga bajo su custodia o control; sin embargo, no se entenderá por tortura el dolor o los sufrimientos que se deriven únicamente de sanciones lícitas o que sean consecuencia normal o fortuita de ellas;
(f) Por "embarazo forzado" se entenderá el confinamiento ilícito de una mujer a la que se ha dejado embarazada por la fuerza, con la intención de modificar la composición étnica de una población o de cometer otras violaciones graves del derecho internacional. En modo alguno se entenderá que esta definición afecta a las normas de derecho interno relativas al embarazo;
(g) Por "persecución" se entenderá la privación intencional y grave de derechos fundamentales en contravención del derecho internacional en razón de la identidad del grupo o de la colectividad;
(h) Por "el crimen de apartheid" se entenderán los actos inhumanos de carácter similar a los mencionados en el párrafo 1 cometidos en el contexto de un régimen institucionalizado de opresión y dominación sistemáticas de un grupo racial sobre uno o más grupos raciales y con la intención de mantener ese régimen;
(i) Por "desaparición forzada de personas" se entenderá la aprehensión, la detención o el secuestro de personas por un Estado o una organización política, o con su autorización, apoyo o aquiescencia, seguido de la negativa a admitir tal privación de libertad o dar información sobre la suerte o el paradero de esas personas, con la intención de dejarlas fuera del amparo de la ley por un período prolongado.
3. A los efectos del presente Estatuto se entenderá que el término "género" se refiere a los dos sexos, masculino y femenino, en el contexto de la sociedad. El término "género" no tendrá más acepción que la que antecede.