SCC Art. 264c -

Einleitung zur Rechtsnorm SCC:

Art. 264c SCC from 2025

Art. 264c Serious violations of the Geneva Conventions

¹ The penalty is a custodial sentence of not less than five years for any person who commits a serious violation of the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949 ⁽¹⁾ in connection with an international armed conflict by carrying out any of the following acts against persons or property protected under the Conventions:

a. intentional homicide;

b. hostage taking;

c. causing severe pain or suffering or serious injury, whether physical or mental, in particular by torture, inhuman treatment or biological experiments;

d. extensive destruction and appropriation of property not justified by military necessity and carried out unlawfully and wantonly;

e. compelling a person to serve in the forces of a hostile power;

f. unlawful deportation or transfer or unlawful confinement;

g. denying the right to a fair and regular trial before the imposition or execution of a severe penalty.

² Acts in terms of paragraph 1 committed in connection with a non-international armed conflict are equivalent to serious violations of international humanitarian law if they are directed against a person or property protected by international humanitarian law.

³ In especially serious cases, and in particular where the offence affects a number of persons or the offender acts in a cruel manner, a custodial sentence of life may be imposed.

⁴ In less serious cases under paragraph 1 letters c–g, a custodial sentence of not less than one year may be imposed.

⁽¹⁾ Geneva Convention of 12 Aug. 1949 for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field (GA I), SR 0.518.12; Geneva Convention of 12 Aug. 1949 for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick and Shipwrecked Members of Armed Forces at Sea (GA II), SR 0.518.23; Geneva Convention of 12 Aug. 1949 relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War (GA III), SR 0.518.42; Geneva Convention of 12 Aug. 1949 relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War (GA IV), SR 0.518.51.

Es besteht kein Anspruch auf Aktualität und Vollständigkeit/Richtigkeit.