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; 36