IX. The Judiciary
Article 96
[Other federal courts]
(5) With the consent of the Bundesrat, a federal law may provide that courts of the Länder shall exercise federal jurisdiction over criminal proceedings in the following matters:
genocide;
crimes against humanity under international criminal law;
war crimes;
other acts tending to and undertaken with the intent to disturb the peaceful relations between nations (paragraph (1) of Article 26);
Article 1 Code of Crimes against International Law (CCAIL)
Part 2 Crimes against International Law
Chapter 1 Genocide and crimes against humanity
Section 7 Crimes against humanity
(1) Whoever, as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population,
1. kills a person,
2. inflicts, with the intent of destroying a population in whole or in part, conditions of life on that population or on parts thereof, being conditions calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part,
3. traffics in persons, particularly in women or children, or whoever enslaves a person in another way and in doing so arrogates to himself a right of ownership over that person,
4. deports or forcibly transfers, by expulsion or other coercive acts, a person lawfully present in an area to another State or another area in contravention of a general rule of international law,
5. tortures a person in his or her custody or otherwise under his or her control by causing that person substantial physical or mental harm or suffering where such harm or suffering does not arise only from sanctions that are compatible with international law,
6. sexually coerces, rapes, forces into prostitution or deprives a person of his or her reproductive capacity, or confines a woman forcibly made pregnant with the intent of affecting the ethnic composition of any population,
7. causes a person’s enforced disappearance, with the intention of removing him or her from the protection of the law for a prolonged period of time,
(a) by abducting that person on behalf of or with the approval of a State or a political organisation, or by otherwise severely depriving such person of his or her physical liberty, followed by a failure immediately to give truthful information, upon inquiry, on that person’s fate and whereabouts, or
(b) by refusing, on behalf of a State or of a political organisation or in contravention of a legal duty, to give information immediately on the fate and whereabouts of the person deprived of his or her physical liberty under the circumstances referred to under letter (a) above, or by giving false information thereon,
8. causes another person severe physical or mental harm, especially of the kind referred to in section 226 of the Criminal Code,
9. severely deprives, in contravention of a general rule of international law, a person of his or her physical liberty, or
10. persecutes an identifiable group or collectivity by depriving such group or collectivity of fundamental human rights, or by substantially restricting the same, on political, racial, national, ethnic, cultural or religious, gender or other grounds that are recognised as impermissible under the general rules of international law
shall be punished, in the cases referred to under numbers 1 and 2, with imprisonment for life, in the cases referred to under numbers 3 to 7, with imprisonment for not less than five years, and, in the cases referred to under numbers 8 to 10, with imprisonment for not less than three years.
(2) In less serious cases under subsection (1), number 2, the punishment shall be imprisonment for not less than five years, in less serious cases under subsection (1), numbers 3 to 7, imprisonment for not less than two years, and in less serious cases under subsection (1), numbers 8 and 9, imprisonment for not less than one year.
(3) Where the perpetrator causes the death of a person through an offence pursuant to subsection (1), numbers 3 to 10, the punishment shall be imprisonment for life or for not less than ten years in cases under subsection (1), numbers 3 to 7, and imprisonment for not less than five years in cases under subsection (1), numbers 8 to 10.
(4) In less serious cases under subsection (3) the punishment for an offence pursuant to subsection (1), numbers 3 to 7, shall be imprisonment for not less than five years, and for an offence pursuant to subsection (1), numbers 8 to 10, imprisonment for not less than three years.
(5) Whoever commits a crime pursuant to subsection (1) with the intention of maintaining an institutionalised regime of systematic oppression and domination by one racial group over any other shall be punished with imprisonment for not less than five years so far as the offence is not punishable more severely pursuant to subsection (1) or subsection (3). In less serious cases the punishment shall be imprisonment for not less than three years so far as the offence is not punishable more severely pursuant to subsection (2) or subsection (4).
SPECIAL PART
CHAPTER SEVEN
OFFENCES AGAINST PUBLIC ORDER
Section 126
Breach of the public peace by threatening to commit offences
(1)
2. murder under specific aggravating circumstances (section 211), murder (section 212) or genocide (section 6 of the Code of International Criminal Law) or a crime against humanity (section 7 of the Code of International Criminal Law) or a war crime (section 8, section 9, section 10, section11 or section 12 of the Code of International Criminal Law);
SPECIAL PART
CHAPTER SEVEN
OFFENCES AGAINST PUBLIC ORDER
Section 129a
Forming terrorist organisations
(1) Whosoever forms an organisation whose aims or activities are directed at the commission of
1. murder under specific aggravating circumstances (section 211), murder (section 212) or genocide (section 6 of the Code of International Criminal Law) or a crime against humanity (section 7 of the Code of International Criminal Law) or a war crime (section 8, section 9, section 10, section11 or section 12 of the Code ofInternational Criminal Law); or
SPECIAL PART
CHAPTER SEVEN
OFFENCES AGAINST PUBLIC ORDER
Section 138
Omission to bring planned offences to the attention of the authorities
5. murder under specific aggravating circumstances (section 211), murder (section 212), genocide (section 6 of the Code of International Criminal Law), a crime against humanity (section 7 of the Code of International Criminal Law), or a war crime (section 8, section 9, section 10, section 11 or section 12 of the Code of International Criminal Law);
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.