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... (b) To make those offences punishable by appropriate penalties which take
into account the grave nature of these offences.
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Each State Party shall adopt such measures as may be necessary, including,
where appropriate, domestic legislation, to ensure that criminal acts within the
scope of this Convention, in particular where they are intended or calculated to
provoke a state of terror in the general public or in a group of persons or particular
persons, are under no circumstances justifiable by considerations of a political,
philosophical, ideological, racial, ethnic, religious or other similar nature and are
punished by penalties consistent with their grave nature.
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1. The State Party in the territory of which the alleged offender is present shall,
in cases to which article 9 applies, if it does not extradite that person, be obliged,
without exception whatsoever and whether or not the offence was committed in its
territory, to submit the case without undue delay to its competent authorities for the
purpose of prosecution, through proceedings in accordance with the laws of that
State. Those authorities shall take their decision in the same manner as in the case of
any other offence of a grave nature under the law of that State.
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