PENAL CODE of the Democratic Republic of Timor Leste
f) Serious, prolonged and unjustified restrictions on the liberty of
persons;
g) Deportation or transfer or unlawful confinement;
h) Unjustified appropriation or destruction of property of high value;
i) Renders and executes sentences, without previous fair and
impartial trial;
j) Commits acts offensive to human dignity, in particular by means of
humiliating and degrading treatment;
k) Kills or wounds a combatant who, having laid down his or her arms
or having no longer any means of defense, has unconditionally
surrendered or otherwise been removed from combat;
l) Any of the acts described in paragraph (g) of the previous article;
m) Subjects persons who are in the power of an adverse party to
physical mutilation or to medical or scientific experiments of any
kind which are neither motivated by any medical, dental or hospital
treatment of the persons concerned, nor performed in their interest,
and which cause death to or seriously endanger the health of such
persons; is punishable with 12 to 25 years imprisonment.
2. The limits of the sentence are increased by one-fifth whenever the acts referred to
in the previous subarticle are committed against members of a humanitarian
institution.
3. Any person who, within the context of an armed conflict of an international nature:
a) Transfers, directly or indirectly, as an occupying power, parts of its
own civilian population into the territory it occupies, or transfers all
or parts of the population of the occupied territory within or
outside this territory;
b) Compels a prisoner of war or other protected person to serve in
the armed forces of a hostile power;
c) Delays, after cessation of hostilities, and without a justified reason,
repatriation of prisoners of war; is punishable with 15 to 30 years
imprisonment.
Article 126. War crimes committed using prohibited methods of warfare
Any person who, within the context of an armed conflict of an international or
noninternational nature:
a) Conducts widespread attacks against the civilian population or
against individual civilians not taking direct part in hostilities;
b) Attacks civilian assets, that is, assets that are not military
objectives;
c) Attacks by whatever means, human settlements, dwellings or
buildings which are undefended and not military objectives;
d) Launches an indiscriminate attack that affects a civilian population
or assets in the knowledge that such an attack will cause
excessive loss of human life or injury to civilians or damage to
civilian assets;
e) Utilizes the presence of civilians or other protected persons to
shield certain points, areas or military forces from becoming
targets of military operations;
f) Intentionally uses starvation of civilians as a method of warfare by
depriving them of goods indispensable to their survival;
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