Chapter 11 (212/2008)
War crimes and crimes against humanity
Section 3 (212/2008)
Crime against humanity
A person who, as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against a civilian population,
1) kills or enslaves another person, subjects him or her to trade by making an offer, purchasing, selling or renting, or tortures him or her, or in some other manner causes him or her great suffering or a serious injury or seriously harms his or her health, or destroys people by inflicting on a population or part of it destructive conditions of life or in some other manner,
2) deports or forcibly transfers population lawfully residing in an area,
3) imprisons a person or otherwise deprives him or her of his or her liberty in violation of fundamental rules of international law or causes the enforced disappearance of a person who has been deprived of his or her liberty,
4) rapes another person, subjects him or her to sexual slavery, forces him or her into prostitution, pregnancy or sterilisation or commits other sexual violence of comparable gravity against him or her, or
5) engages in racial discrimination or persecutes an identifiable group or collectivity on the basis of political opinion, race, nationality, ethnic origin, culture, religion or gender or on other comparable grounds
shall be sentenced for a crime against humanity to imprisonment for at least one year or for life.
Chapter 11 (212/2008)
War crimes and crimes against humanity
Section 4 (212/2008)
Aggravated crime against humanity
If a crime against humanity
1) is directed against a large group of people,
2) is committed in a particularly brutal, cruel or humiliating manner, or
3) is committed in a particularly premeditated or systematic manner,
and the offence is also aggravated when assessed as a whole, the perpetrator shall be sentenced for an aggravated crime against humanity to imprisonment for at least eight years or for life.
An attempt is punishable.
1. Aux fins du présent Statut, on entend par crime contre l'humanité l'un quelconque des actes ci-après lorsqu'il est commis dans le cadre d'une attaque généralisée ou systématique lancée contre toute population civile et en connaissance de cette attaque :
a) Meurtre ;
b) Extermination ;
c) Réduction en esclavage ;
d) Déportation ou transfert forcé de population ;
e) Emprisonnement ou autre forme de privation grave de liberté physique en violation des dispositions fondamentales du droit international ;
f) Torture ;
g) Viol, esclavage sexuel, prostitution forcée, grossesse forcée, stérilisation forcée ou toute autre forme de violence sexuelle de gravité comparable ;
h) Persécution de tout groupe ou de toute collectivité identifiable pour des motifs d'ordre politique, racial, national, ethnique, culturel, religieux ou sexiste au sens du paragraphe 3, ou en fonction d'autres critères universellement reconnus comme inadmissibles en droit international, en corrélation avec tout acte visé dans le présent paragraphe ou tout crime relevant de la compétence de la Cour ;
i) Disparitions forcées de personnes ;
j) Crime d'apartheid ;
k) Autres actes inhumains de caractère analogue causant intentionnellement de grandes souffrances ou des atteintes graves à l'intégrité physique ou à la santé physique ou mentale.