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... For the purpose of the present Convention, the term "the crime of
apartheid", which shall include similar policies and practices of
racial segregation and discrimination as practised in southern Africa,
shall apply to the following inhuman acts committed for the purpose of
establishing and maintaining domination by one racial group of persons
over any other racial group of persons and systematically oppressing them:
...
... For the purpose of the present Convention, the term "the crime of
apartheid", which shall include similar policies and practices of
racial segregation and discrimination as practised in southern Africa,
shall apply to the following inhuman acts committed for the purpose of
establishing and maintaining domination by one racial group of persons
over any other racial group of persons and systematically oppressing them:
...
... (a) Denial to a member or members of a racial group or groups of the
right to life and liberty of person: ...
... (f) Persecution of organizations and persons, by depriving them of
fundamental rights and freedoms, because they oppose apartheid. ...
... (a) To adopt any legislative or other measures necessary to suppress as
well as to prevent any encouragement of the crime of apartheid and similar
segregationist policies or their manifestations and to punish persons
guilty of that crime; ...
... (b) To adopt legislative, judicial and administrative measures to
prosecute, bring to trial and punish in accordance with their jurisdiction
persons responsible for, or accused of, the acts defined in article 2 of
the present Convention, whether or not such persons reside in the
territory of the State in which the acts are committed or are nationals of
that State or of some other State or are stateless persons. ...
... (b) To adopt legislative, judicial and administrative measures to
prosecute, bring to trial and punish in accordance with their jurisdiction
persons responsible for, or accused of, the acts defined in article 2 of
the present Convention, whether or not such persons reside in the
territory of the State in which the acts are committed or are nationals of
that State or of some other State or are stateless persons. ...
... (b) To adopt legislative, judicial and administrative measures to
prosecute, bring to trial and punish in accordance with their jurisdiction
persons responsible for, or accused of, the acts defined in article 2 of
the present Convention, whether or not such persons reside in the
territory of the State in which the acts are committed or are nationals of
that State or of some other State or are stateless persons. ...
... Persons charged with the acts enumerated in article 2 of the present
Convention may be tried by a competent tribunal of any State Party to the
Convention which may acquire jurisdiction over the person of the accused
or by an international penal tribunal having jurisdiction with respect to
those States Parties which shall have accepted its jurisdiction. ...
... Persons charged with the acts enumerated in article 2 of the present
Convention may be tried by a competent tribunal of any State Party to the
Convention which may acquire jurisdiction over the person of the accused
or by an international penal tribunal having jurisdiction with respect to
those States Parties which shall have accepted its jurisdiction. ...