Article 108

A person who, in violation of international law and international humanitarian law, with knowledge of such attack, organizes, orders or engages in any of the following acts as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population:

murder;

extermination;

enslavement;

torture;

rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution and engagement in debauchery, forced pregnancy, enforced sterilization, grossly inhuman treatment, or any other form of sexual violence of comparable gravity;

persecution against any identifiable group or collectivity on political, racial, national, ethnic, cultural, religious, gender of both sexes, or other grounds that are universally recognized as impermissible under international law;

enforced disappearance of persons;

imprisonment or other severe deprivation of physical liberty in violation of fundamental rules of international law;

deportation or forcible transportation of population; and/or

other inhumane acts of a similar character intentionally causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or to mental or physical health,

For the purpose of the offence of crimes against humanity:

“Attack directed against any civilian population” means a course of conduct involving the multiple commission of acts referred to in paragraph 1 against any civilian population, pursuant to or in furtherance of a State or organizational policy or plan to commit such attack;

“Extermination” includes the intentional infliction of conditions of life, inter alia the deprivation of access to food and medicine, calculated to bring about the destruction of part of a population;

“Enslavement” means the exercise of any or all of the powers attaching to the right of ownership over a person and includes the exercise of such power in the course of trafficking in persons, in particular women and children;

“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 reasonably arising only from, inherent in, or incidental to the proper execution of lawful procedures;

“Forced pregnancy” means the unlawful confinement of a woman forcibly made pregnant, or forced sexual intercourse and impregnation of a woman under any form of threat, coercion or any other similar illegal means;

“Persecution” means the intentional and severe deprivation of fundamental rights contrary to international law by reason of the identity of a given group or collectivity;

“Enforced disappearance of persons” means the arrest, detention or abduction of persons by, or with the authorization, support or acquiescence of, a State or a political organization, followed by a refusal to acknowledge that deprivation of freedom or to give information on the fate or whereabouts of those persons, with the intention of removing them from the protection of the law for a prolonged period of time; and

“Deportation or forcible transfer of population” means forced displacement of the persons concerned by expulsion or other coercive acts from the area in which they are lawfully present, without grounds permitted under international law.