Genocide, Crimes Against Humanity, and War Crimes Jurisdiction

November 2016

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By the Staff of the Global Legal Research Center

This chart reports on 149 jurisdictions that have laws punishing at least one of the three crimes, genocide, crimes against humanity, or war crimes. It indicates, where information was available, whether those laws cover only nationals, foreign 

persons when the offense is committed within the territory, or foreign persons when the offenses are committed outside of the country’s borders. In cases for which it is known that the laws have actually been applied, that information is included 

in the far right column of the chart. Note that blank boxes indicate that information was not available on a particular point. Note also that in some cases “yes” or “no” is indicated in the columns as the general rule, but limited exceptions are 

made, as indicated in the endnotes.

Country Genocide Crimes Against Humanity War Crimes Sources Used?

Nationals

Foreigners –

Offense 

Within 

Country

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Offense 

Abroad

Nationals

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Offense Within 

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Offense 

Abroad

Nationals

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Offense Within 

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Offense 

Abroad

Albania Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y CRIMINAL CODE (version of June 11, 2015) arts. 6–8, available at http://raisee.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Criminal-Code-11-06-2015-EN.pdf, 

archived at https://perma.cc/4M7P-E4CW.

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Algeria N N N N N N Y N N MILITARY JUSTICE CODE OF 1971, arts. 286–287, 

http://www.joradp.dz/TRV/AJustM.pdf (in Arabic), archived at 

https://perma.cc/9MPW-DGXG.

Antigua and 

Barbuda

Y Y N Y Y Y N N N Antigua and Barbuda Constitution Order 1981, 1981, No. 1106, 

http://www.laws.gov.ag/acts/chapters/cap-23.pdf, archived at

https://perma.cc/6FL2-UUAJ; Genocide Act 1975, cap. 191, 

http://laws.gov.ag/acts/chapters/cap-191.pdf, archived at https://perma.cc/VS4YDQUG; Suppression of Torture Act 1993, No. 15 of 1993, § 3, 

http://laws.gov.ag/acts/1993/a1993-15.pdf, archived at https://perma.cc/2VYW5ABB. 

Argentina Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y NATIONAL CONSTITUTION, Dec. 15, 1994, art. 118, 

http://servicios.infoleg.gob.ar/infolegInternet/anexos/0-4999/804/norma.htm (in 

Spanish), archived at https://perma.cc/ZNH8-X4FH; Law 26200 on Ratification 

of the Statute of Rome, Dec. 13, 2006, arts. 2–6, BOLETIN OFICIAL, Jan. 9, 2007, 

available at http://www.infoleg.gov.ar /infolegInternet/anexos/120000-

124999/123921/ norma.htm (in Spanish), archived at https://perma.cc/TC5CQN9M; PENAL CODE, Law 11179 Revised Text 1984, art. 144 ter, 

http://servicios.infoleg.gob.ar/infolegInternet/anexos/15000-

19999/16546/texact.htm (in Spanish), archived at https://perma.cc/8PNW-V476.

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Armenia Y Y N Y Y N Y Y N3 CRIMINAL CODE (2003), arts. 14–15, 

http://www.parliament.am/legislation.php?sel=show&ID=1349&lang=eng, 

archived at https://perma.cc/DM9G-HQBU.

Aruba Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y LANDSVERORDENING van 26 oktober 2012 houdende regels met betrekking 

tot de strafbaarstelling van ernstige schendingen van de mensenrechten 

(Landsverordening internationale misdrijven) [National Ordinance of October 
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Country Genocide Crimes Against Humanity War Crimes Sources Used?

Nationals

Foreigners –

Offense 

Within 

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Offense 

Abroad

Nationals

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Offense Within 

Country

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Offense 

Abroad

Nationals

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Offense Within 

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Foreigners –

Offense 

Abroad

26, 2012, Laying Down Rules Relating to the Criminalization of Serious 

Violations of Human Rights (National Ordinance on International Crimes)], 

2012 AFKONDIGINGSBLAD VAN ARUBA [AB] No. 40, 

http://www.overheid.aw/document.php?m=7&fileid=13226&f=9cc56775f82305

99653ea172f58067fb&attachment=0&c=18589, archived at

https://perma.cc/2VY7-DV3K.

Australia Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y International Criminal Court Act 2002 (Cth), s 3(2), 

https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/C2016C00574, archived at 

https://perma.cc/35E8-HVFU; Criminal Code Act 1995 (Cth), ss 15.4 & 268.117 

(div 268 sets out the relevant offenses), 

https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/C2016C00753, archived at 

http://perma.cc/Z2JD-SQZP (vol. 1) & https://perma.cc/7WV6-2Z75 (vol. 2); 

see also War Crimes Act 1945 (Cth), as amended by the War Crimes 

Amendment Act 1988 (Cth), 

https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/C2010C00110, archived at 

https://perma.cc/5QGU-PKNS (currently applies only to war crimes committed 

in Europe between 1939 and 1945 where person charged is currently an 

Australian citizen or resident); Geneva Conventions Act 1957 (Cth), 

https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/C2016C00559, archived at

https://perma.cc/JR95-2KSV. 

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Austria Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Bundesgesetz vom 23. Jänner 1974 über die mit gerichtlicher Strafe bedrohten 

Handlungen (Strafgesetzbuch - StGB) [Criminal Code], BUNDESGESETZBLATT

[BGBL.] [FEDERAL LAW GAZETTE] No. 60/1974, §§ 62, 64, ¶ 1, nos. 4c, 6, 

§§ 321–321k, 

https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/GeltendeFassung/Bundesnormen/10002296/StGB%2c

%20Fassung%20vom%2019.10.2016.pdf, archived at http://perma.cc/VVE5-

ZZW7. 

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Azerbaijan Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y CRIMINAL CODE (Dec. 30, 1999), arts. 11 & 12, available at 

http://www.refworld.org/docid/4417f82d4.html, archived at

https://perma.cc/2GXM-SBCA.

Bahamas Y Y N Y Y N Genocide Act, cap. 85, 

http://laws.bahamas.gov.bs/cms/images/LEGISLATION/PRINCIPAL/1969/196

9-0029/GenocideAct_1.pdf, archived at https://perma.cc/Y89U-ZET3; Geneva 

Conventions (Colonial Territories) Order in Council 1959, Ch. 95, 

http://laws.bahamas.gov.bs/cms/images/LEGISLATION/SUBORDINATE/1959

/1959-1301/GenevaConventionsActColonialTerritoriesOrderinCouncil 

1959_1.pdf, archived at https://perma.cc/D97X-57CL, which incorporates the 

Geneva Conventions Act 1957, 5 & 6 Eliz. 2, c. 52, 

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/5-6/52/enacted, archived at 

https://perma.cc/N94A-LUS6, into the law of the Bahamas. 
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Country Genocide Crimes Against Humanity War Crimes Sources Used?

Nationals

Foreigners –

Offense 

Within 

Country

Foreigners –

Offense 

Abroad

Nationals

Foreigners –

Offense Within 

Country

Foreigners –

Offense 

Abroad

Nationals

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Offense Within 

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Foreigners –

Offense 

Abroad

Bahrain N N N N N N Y N N MILITARY PENAL CODE arts. 101 & 102, 

http://www.moj.gov.bh/Print_p2294.html?printid=944 (in Arabic), archived at 

https://perma.cc/U443-75QY.

Bangladesh Y Y N Y Y N Y Y N International Crimes (Tribunals) Act, No 19 of 1973, 

http://bdlaws.minlaw.gov.bd/print_sections_all.php?id=435, archived at

https://perma.cc/8ZPT-79V5.

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Barbados Y Y Y Y Y N Y Y N Geneva Conventions Act 1980, § 3, II LAWS OF BARBADOS Cap. 17A (2002); 

Genocide Act 1980, § 4, VI LAWS OF BARBADOS Cap. 133A (2002).

Belarus Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y CRIMINAL CODE arts. 5 & 6, 

http://online.zakon.kz/Document/?doc_id=30414984#pos=180;-123 (in Russian; 

last visited Oct. 26, 2016), archived at https://perma.cc/XKY2-QN5U.

Belgium Y Y Y7 Y Y Y8 Y Y Y9 CODE PÉNAL [PENAL CODE] (Aug. 11, 2016), arts. 136 bis–136 octies, 

http://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/cgi_loi/loi_a1.pl?sql=dt=%27code%20penal%2

7&language=fr&rech=1&tri=dd%20as%20rank&numero=1&cn=1867060801&

caller=image_a1&fromtab=loi&la=f, archived at https://perma.cc/AFU4-4DYK; 

CODE D’INSTRUCTION CRIMINELLE [CODE OF CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION], Titre 

Préliminaire [Preliminary Title], art. 6, 

http://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/cgi_loi/change_lg.pl?language=fr&la=F&cn=18

78041701&table_name=loi, archived at https://perma.cc/YX2B-XC6W.

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Belize Y Y N Genocide Act, Cap. 110, § 2, 

http://www.belizelaw.org/web/lawadmin/PDF%20files/cap110.pdf, archived at

https://perma.cc/J2PD-5KVD.

Bolivia Y Y Y N N N N N N PENAL CODE, Decree Law 10426, Aug. 23, 1972, arts. 1.7, 138 & 295, 

http://silep.vicepresidencia.gob.bo/SILEP/masterley/118465 (in Spanish), 

archived at https://perma.cc/7LWM-6GSD; Law No. 2398 of May 24, 2002, on 

Ratification of the Statute of Rome, 

http://www.silep.gob.bo/silep/masterley/115982 (in Spanish), archived at 

https://perma.cc/PR5G-PWC4.

Bosnia & 

Herzegovina

Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y CRIMINAL CODE (2003, amended 2016), arts. 8–9, available at

http://www.legislationline.org/documents/section/criminal-codes/country/40, 

archived at https://perma.cc/94JR-JBQN.

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Botswana N N N N N N Y Y Y Geneva Conventions Act §§ 3, 6, LAWS OF BOTSWANA, Cap. 39:03 (updated 

through 2014).12

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Country Genocide Crimes Against Humanity War Crimes Sources Used?

Nationals

Foreigners –

Offense 

Within 

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Offense 

Abroad

Nationals

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Offense Within 

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Offense 

Abroad

Nationals

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Offense Within 

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Foreigners –

Offense 

Abroad

Brazil Y N N N N N N N N Lei No. 2.889, de 1 de Outubro de 1956 (Oct. 1, 1956) [defining and punishing 

nationals for genocide], http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/leis/L2889.htm, 

archived at https://perma.cc/CCL4-E2HA; Decreto No. 4,388 (Sept. 25, 2002), 

http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/decreto/2002/D4388.htm, archived at

https://perma.cc/3Q7P-B3SD.

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Bulgaria Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y CRIMINAL CODE (Apr. 2, 1968, as last amended May 28, 2010), arts. 3–8, 

https://www.unodc.org/res/cld/document/bgr/1968/criminal_code_html/Bulgaria

_Criminal_Code.pdf, archived at https://perma.cc/RMK5-V5HK.

Burkina Faso Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y CODE PÉNAL [PENAL CODE] (Nov. 13, 2016), arts. 4, 313–317, 

https://www.unodc.org/tldb/pdf/Burkina_Faso_Penal_Code_Fr.pdf, archived at

https://perma.cc/4PZ2-JYDD; Loi no. 052-2009/AN du 16 juin 2009 portant 

détermination des compétences et de la procédure de mise en œuvre du statut de 

Rome relatif à la Cour pénale internationale par les juridictions burkinabè [Law 

No. 052-2009/AN of 16 June 2009 to Determine the Competence and the 

Procedures for the Application of the Rome Statute Regarding the International 

Criminal Court by Burkinabè Jurisdictions], available at 

http://www.iccnow.org/documents/Decret_n2009-894-

PRES_promulguant_la_loi_n052-2009-AN.pdf, archived at

https://perma.cc/MAV9-HQDQ.

Burundi Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Loi No. 1/05 du 22 avril 2009 portant révision du Code pénal [Law No. 1/05 of 

22 April 2009 Revising the Penal Code], arts. 10 & 195–203, 

http://www.assemblee.bi/IMG/pdf/code%20penal.pdf, archived at

https://perma.cc/U53F-59HV.

Cambodia Y Y Y15 Y Y Y16 Y Y Y17 CRIMINAL CODE (2009), arts. 20, 183, 188, 193 & 194, available at 

https://www.unodc.org/res/cld/document/khm/criminal_code_of_the_kingdom_

of_cambodia_html/Cambodia_Criminal-Code-of-the-Kingdom-of-Cambodia30-Nov-2009-Eng.pdf, archived at https://perma.cc/53NJ-F85B. 

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Canada Y Y Y19 Y Y Y20 Y Y Y21 Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act (S.C. 2000, c. 24), http://lawslois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/c-45.9/FullText.html, archived at 

https://perma.cc/NVU7-7LXK.

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Cayman 

Islands

Y Y N N N N Y Y Y Genocide Law (2015 Revision), http://www.gov.ky/portal/pls/ 

portal/docs/1/12018123.PDF, archived at https://perma.cc/YQ3Z-35NT; Geneva 

Conventions Acts 1957 and 1995 (5 & 6 Eliz. 2 C.52 and C. 27); Geneva 

Conventions (Amendments) Act 1995, C. 27, http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ 

ukpga/1995/27/pdfs/ukpga_19950027_en.pdf, archived at https://perma.cc/ 

K67E-G4XD; Geneva Conventions (Amendment) Act (Overseas Territories 

Order 2002 – UKSI 2002/1076), http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/1076/ 

pdfs/uksi_20021076_en.pdf, archived at https://perma.cc/TSS5-7TFM.
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Country Genocide Crimes Against Humanity War Crimes Sources Used?

Nationals

Foreigners –

Offense 

Within 

Country

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Offense 

Abroad

Nationals

Foreigners –

Offense Within 

Country

Foreigners –

Offense 

Abroad

Nationals

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Offense Within 

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Foreigners –

Offense 

Abroad

Central 

African 

Republic

Y Y N Y Y N Y Y N CODE PÉNAL [PENAL CODE] (Jan. 6, 2010), arts. 152–162, available at 

http://www.ilo.org/dyn/natlex/docs/SERIAL/88116/100661/F1881819351/CAF88116.pdf, archived at https://perma.cc/A9TR-6C28; CODE DE PROCÉDURE 

PÉNALE [CODE OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE], art. 336, 

http://www.ilo.org/dyn/natlex/docs/SERIAL/88120/100660/F498635820/CAF88120.pdf, archived at https://perma.cc/KW29-YCH5.

Chile Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Ley No. 20357, DIARIO OFICIAL [D.O.], July 18, 2009, http://bcn.cl/1w20h, 

archived at https://perma.cc/4CMK-CNBP; Decree 104 on Ratification of the 

Statute of Rome, D.O., Aug. 1, 2009, CÓDIGO ORGÁNICO DE TRIBUNALES art. 

6.8, http://bcn.cl/1uxun (in Spanish), archived at https://perma.cc/ZY4HWVHM.

China, People’s 

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N N N N N N N24 N N The Criminal Law of the People’s Republic of China [中华人民共和国刑法] 

(promulgated Mar. 14, 1997, effective Oct. 1, 1997, as amended) arts. 9 

(universal jurisdiction), 446 (servicemen injuring civilians or plundering 

property in wartime) & 448 (maltreatment of war prisoners), available at 

Westlaw (by subscription) (bilingual Chinese/English text). 

Colombia Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Ley No. 599 de 2000, por la cual se expide el Código Penal, as amended, arts. 

16, 101–102, 135–164, & 178, 

http://www.alcaldiabogota.gov.co/sisjur/normas/Norma1.jsp?i=6388, archived 

at https://perma.cc/Q9DJ-QRKY.

Comoros Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Loi No. 11-022/AU du 13 décembre 2011 portant mise en œuvre du Statut de 

Rome [Law No. 11-022/AU of 13 December 2011 for the Implementation of the 

Rome Statute] arts. 15, 17–22, http://www.iccnow.org/documents/0025_001.pdf,

archived at https://perma.cc/F7VU-K24C.

Congo, 

Democratic 

Republic of the

Y Y N Y Y N Y Y N Loi No. 024/2002 du 18 novembre 2002 portant Code pénal militaire [Law No. 

024/2002 of 18 November 2002 Establishing the Military Penal Code] arts. 40, 

161–175, http://www.leganet.cd/Legislation/Droit%20Judiciaire/ 

Loi.024.2002.18.11.2002.pdf, archived at https://perma.cc/PSC4-P6HQ; Loi No. 

023/2002 du 18 novembre 2002 portant Code judiciaire militaire [Law No. 

023/2002 of 18 November 2002 Establishing the Military Judiciary Code] arts. 

79 & 80, http://www.leganet.cd/Legislation/Droit%20Judiciaire/Loi.023. 

2002.18.11.2002.pdf, archived at https://perma.cc/H4F6-PPLF.

Congo, 

Republic of the

Y Y N Y Y N Y Y N Loi 8/98 du 31 octobre 1998 portant définition et répression du génocide, des 

crimes de guerre et des crimes contre l’humanité [Law 9/98 of 31 October 1998 

to Define and Suppress Genocide, War Crimes, and Crimes Against Humanity], 

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/shared/shared_hrlcicju/CongoBrazzaville/Loi_No_8-98_portant_definitions_et_repression_des_crimes_.pdf, 

archived at https://perma.cc/5FCX-QCGL.
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Country Genocide Crimes Against Humanity War Crimes Sources Used?

Nationals

Foreigners –

Offense 

Within 

Country

Foreigners –

Offense 

Abroad

Nationals

Foreigners –

Offense Within 

Country

Foreigners –

Offense 

Abroad

Nationals

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Offense Within 

Country

Foreigners –

Offense 

Abroad

Cook Islands N N N N N N Y Y Y Geneva Conventions and Additional Protocols Act 2002, s 5(1) & (3), available 

at http://www.paclii.org/ck/legis/num_act/gcaapa2002427, archived at

https://perma.cc/F97U-UUSX.

Costa Rica Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y CÓDIGO PENAL, Ley No. 4573, arts. 4, 7, 382, 385 & 386, LA GACETA, Nov. 15, 

1970, http://www.pgrweb.go.cr/scij/Busqueda/Normativa/Normas/ 

nrm_texto_completo.aspx?param1=NRTC&nValor1=1&nValor2=5027&nValor

3=98548&strTipM=TC, archived at https://perma.cc/BP5X-8WA8. 

Côte d’Ivoire Y Y N Y Y N Y Y N CODE PÉNAL [PENAL CODE] (July 6, 1995) arts. 14–16 & 137–140, available at 

http://www.wipo.int/edocs/lexdocs/laws/fr/ci/ci005fr.pdf, archived at

https://perma.cc/L397-TG5Z; CODE DE PROCÉDURE PÉNALE [CODE OF 

CRIMINAL PROCEDURE] arts. 658, 659 & 662, 

https://www.unodc.org/res/cld/document/civ/1960/loi-no-60-366-du-14-

novembre-1960-portant-code-de-procedurepenale_html/Cote_dIvoire_Loi_No_60-

366_du_14_Novembre_1960_portant_code_de_procedure_penale.pdf, archived 

at https://perma.cc/EZ6N-EY2U.

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Croatia Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y CRIMINAL CODE (Oct. 21, 1997, as amended to July 15, 2003) arts. 13 & 14, 

http://www.vsrh.hr/custompages/static/hrv/files/legislation__criminal-code.pdf

(unofficial translation), archived at https://perma.cc/Y9VP-K75Q. 

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Cuba Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Ley No. 62, CODIGO PENAL [Law No. 62, PENAL CODE], as amended, Apr. 30, 

1988, arts. 5, 116 & 120, in COMENTARIOS A LAS LEYES PENALES CUBANAS

(Arnel Medina Cuenca ed., 2014), 

http://www.lex.uh.cu/sites/default/files/3.Comentarios%20a%20las%20leyes%2

0penales%20cubanas.PDF, archived at https://perma.cc/S72X-9EZP.

Czech Republic Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y CRIMINAL CODE §§ 4–9, 

http://www.ejtn.eu/PageFiles/6533/Criminal%20Code%20of%20the%20Czech

%20Republic.pdf (last visited Oct. 26, 2016), archived at

https://perma.cc/MX8L-EMY7.

Denmark Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y LOV OM STRAF FOR FOLKEDRAB, LOV nr 132 af 29/04/1955, 

https://www.retsinformation.dk/forms/R0710.aspx?id=59306, archived at 

https://perma.cc/ZM42-9AMR; DATASAMMENSKRIVNING AF LOV OM STRAF 

FOR KRIGSFORBRYDELSER ( LOV NR. 395 AF 12. JULI 1946 OM STRAF FOR 

KRIGSFORBRYDELSER MED DE ÆNDRINGER, DER FØLGER AF LOV NR. 423 AF 7.

OKTOBER 1947) [CONSOLIDATED ACT ON LAWS AGAINST WAR CRIMES],

https://www.retsinformation.dk/forms/R0710.aspx?id=59077, archived at 

https://perma.cc/7H3L-FKSC (read together with amendment to prohibit death 

penalty).

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Nationals

Foreigners –

Offense 

Within 

Country

Foreigners –

Offense 

Abroad

Nationals

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Offense Within 

Country

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Offense 

Abroad

Nationals

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Offense 

Abroad

Djibouti Y Y Y28 Y Y Y29 N N N CODE PÉNAL [PENAL CODE] arts. 10, 15, 16 & 48–484, available at 

https://www.unodc.org/tldb/pdf/Djibouti_Penal_Code_Fr.pdf (last visited Oct.

27, 2016), archived at https://perma.cc/D3QV-JTMR.

Dominica Y Y N N N N Y Y Y Genocide Act Chap. 10:04, as amended, 

http://www.dominica.gov.dm/laws/chapters/chap10-04.pdf, archived at

https://perma.cc/EJ7N-UVG6; Geneva Conventions Act 1957 (U.K.), 

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/5-6/52/enacted, archived at

https://perma.cc/W47B-ZKR3 (extended to Dominica by Colonial Territories 

Order (1959 No. 1301), 

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1959/1301/pdfs/uksi_19591301_en.pdf, 

archived at https://perma.cc/LH9B-XMBY, as amended by (1962 No. 1084)); 

Geneva Conventions (Supplementary Provs.) Act 1960 (Cap. 8) (F.A.).

Dominican 

Republic

Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y CÓDIGO PROCESAL PENAL DE LA REPÚBLICA DOMINICANA [DOMINICAN 

REPUBLIC CRIMINAL PROCEDURE CODE], as amended, arts. 49 & 56, July 19, 

2002,

http://www.poderjudicial.gob.do/documentos/PDF/codigos/Codigo_Procesal_Pe

nal.pdf, archived at https://perma.cc/5G8H-44JB.

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Ecuador Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Political Constitution arts. 79–80, REGISTRO OFICIAL [R.O.], Oct. 20, 2008, 

http://www.asambleanacional.gob.ec/sites/default/files/private/asambleanacional

/filesasambleanacionalnameuid-20/transparencia-2015/literal-a/a2/ConstEnmienda-2015.pdf (in Spanish), archived at https://perma.cc/7VVR-BDDZ; 

CÓDIGO ORGÁNICO INTEGRAL PENAL arts. 15, 16, 79–90, 398 & 400.4, R.O., 

Feb. 10, 2014, 

http://www.asambleanacional.gob.ec/es/system/files/document.pdf, archived at

https://perma.cc/5M5W-8F4J.

El Salvador Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y CÓDIGO PENAL, Decreto No. 1030, arts. 8, 10, 361, 362 & 363, DIARIO OFICIAL, 

June 10, 1997, http://www.asamblea.gob.sv/eparlamento/indicelegislativo/buscador-de-documentos-legislativos/codigo-penal (click on 

“Descargar”), archived at https://perma.cc/UAY3-9NLQ.

Eritrea Y Y N Y Y N Y Y N TRANSITIONAL PENAL CODE arts. 282–2814 (consisting of PENAL CODE OF THE 

EMPIRE OF ETHIOPIA, Proclamation No. 158, NEGARIT GAZETA [N.G.]

EXTRAORDINARY (Brhanenna Selam Printing Press 1957), available at

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Netherlands Y Y78 Y79 Y Y Y Y Y Y Wet van 19 juni 2003, houdende regels met betrekking tot ernstige schendingen 

van het internationaal humanitair recht (Wet internationale misdrijven) [Act of 

19 June 2003 Containing Rules Concerning Serious Violations of International

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7, http://wetten.overheid.nl/BWBR0015252/2006-01-01, archived at

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& (3), http://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1958/0019/latest/whole.html, 

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Nigeria Y Y Y Geneva Conventions Act No. 54 of 1960, § 3 (Sept. 30, 1960), available at 

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Papua New 

Guinea

Y Y N N N N Y Y Y Criminal Code Act 1974, ss 12 & 313A (genocide), 

http://www.paclii.org/pg/legis/consol_act/cca1974115, archived at 

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Nevis

N N N N N N Y Y Y Saint Christopher and Nevis Constitution Order 1983, Statutory Instruments 

1983, No. 881 (June 22, in force June 23, 1983) sched. 2 (Transitional 

Provisions), s. 2, available at

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https://perma.cc/E2A2-FWPW (existing laws as of Sept. 19, 1983, continued in 

force, including Geneva Conventions Act (Colonial Territories) Order in 

Council, 1959, http://laws.bahamas.gov.bs/cms/images/ 

LEGISLATION/SUBORDINATE/1959/1959-

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tLucia.pdf, archived at https://perma.cc/6W7Q-4824 (continuing in force 

existing laws, including the United Kingdom’s Geneva Conventions Act 

(Colonial Territories) Order in Council, 1959, 

http://laws.bahamas.gov.bs/cms/images/LEGISLATION/SUBORDINATE/1959

/1959-1301/GenevaConventionsActColonialTerritoriesOrder 

inCouncil1959_1.pdf, archived at https://perma.cc/EE24-WXXU).

Saint Vincent 

and the 

Grenadines

Y Y Y Geneva Conventions (Supplementary Provisions) Act 1983, Cap. 138 (1990 rev. 

ed.); Geneva Conventions Act (Colonial Territories) Order in Council 1959, SI 

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modifiant le Code de la Procédure pénale relative à la mise en œuvre du Traité 

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Serbia Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y CRIMINAL CODE (2005) arts. 6–9, available at http://www.osce.org/serbia/ 

18244?download=true, archived at http://perma.cc/N9DB-LFP4.

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stories/Legislation/pdf/CriminalCode2009.pdf, archived at 

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Islands

Y Y N N N N Y Y Y PENAL CODE, ss 5 & 52 (genocide), 

http://www.paclii.org/sb/legis/consol_act/pc66, archived at 

https://perma.cc/U2JZ-9MX4; Geneva Conventions Act 1957 (UK) (war crimes) 

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1957/52/pdfs/ukpga_19570052_en.pdf, 

archived at https://perma.cc/YG9T-3ZYL (appears to be applicable by virtue of 

the Geneva Conventions (Colonial Territories) Order 1959 (UK), 

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archived at https://perma.cc/J44U-F63X; Constitution of Solomon Islands, sch 

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South Africa90 Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Implementation of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court Act 27 

of 2002, § 4, GOVERNMENT GAZETTE OF THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA (July 

18, 2002), available at http://www.saflii.org/za/legis/num_act/ 

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Sri Lanka N N N N N N Y Y Y Geneva Conventions Act, No. 4 of 2006, § 2, available at 

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SURINAME, No. 91, http://www.dna.sr/media/45123/SB_2008__No_91_goedk._ 

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Sweden Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y LAG OM STRAFF FÖR FOLKMORD, BROTT MOT MÄNSKLIGHETEN OCH 

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amended up to SFS 2016:515), http://www.riksdagen.se/sv/dokumentlagar/dokument/svensk-forfattningssamling/lag-2014406-om-straff-forfolkmord-brott-mot_sfs-2014-406, archived at https://perma.cc/D7LJ-VJKZ.

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twelvequater, https://www.admin.ch/opc/de/classified-compilation/193700 

83/201610010000/311.0.pdf, archived at http://perma.cc/4S49-RBWJ, unofficial 

English translation available at https://www.admin.ch/opc/en/classifiedcompilation/19370083/201610010000/311.0.pdf, archived at 

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http://law.moj.gov.tw/LawClass/LawAll.aspx?PCode=C0000009, archived at

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Tajikistan Y Y N Y Y N Y Y N96 CRIMINAL CODE arts. 14 & 15, available at http://www.legislationline.org/ 

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Trinidad and 

Tobago

Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y International Criminal Court Act 2006, 2006 TRIN. AND TOB. LAWS, No. 4, § 10, 

available at http://www. nottingham .ac.uk/shared/ shared_ hrlcicju/ Trinidad 

_and_Tobago / Trinidad___Tobago_The_International _ Crimi 

nal_Court_Act_2006.pdf, archived at https://perma.cc/WH8R-MMEA.

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offenses in a foreign country, whether or not committed by a Turkish citizen or 

noncitizen), available at 

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yCriminalCode.pdf, archived at https://perma.cc/ZCY9-EHYY;

100 TÜRK CEZA 

KANUNU [TURKISH CRIMINAL CODE], Law No. 5237 (Sept. 26, 2004, in force 

June 1, 2005, last amended Apr. 18, 2013), 

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Turkmenistan Y Y N Y Y N Y Y N102 CRIMINAL CODE (2010) arts. 7 & 8, 

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Turkmen and Russian), archived at https://perma.cc/PYE3-P8SA.

Tuvalu Y Y N N N N Y Y Y PENAL CODE art. 62 (genocide) (Cap. 10.20, 2008 rev. ed.), 

http://www.paclii.org/tv/legis/consol_act_2008/pc66, archived at 

https://perma.cc/4GLL-5T9Z; Geneva Conventions Act 1957 (UK) (war crimes), 

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1957/52/pdfs/ukpga_19570052_en.pdf, 

archived at https://perma.cc/YG9T-3ZYL (appears to be applicable by virtue of 

the Geneva Conventions (Colonial Territories) Order 1959 (UK), 

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1959/1301/pdfs/uksi_19591301_en.pdf, 

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http://www.paclii.org/tv/legis/consol_act_2008/cot277, archived at 

https://perma.cc/FM9M-2KYY). 

Uganda Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y International Criminal Court Act 11 of 2010, § 18, 103(39) ACTS SUPPLEMENT 

TO THE UGANDA GAZETTE (June 25, 2010), available at 

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Conventions Act of 1964, § 2 (Oct. 16, 1964), available at 

http://www.ulii.org/ug/legislation/consolidated-act/363, archived at

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Kingdom

Y Y N Y Y N Y Y Y International Criminal Court Act 2001, c. 17 §§ 51, 58, 67–68, 

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2001/17, archived at 

https://perma.cc/6QR9-NPFJ; International Criminal Court (Scotland) Act 2001, 

ASP 13 §§ 1–2 & 6, http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2001/13, archived at

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§ 1091 (2012), http://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelimtitle18-section1091&num=0&edition=prelim, archived at

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(2012), http://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title18-

section2441&num=0&edition=prelim, archived at https://perma.cc/EP4EM9GL.

Ukraine Y Y N Y Y N Y Y N105 CRIMINAL CODE (2001) arts. 6–8, http://zakon5.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/2341-14

(in Ukrainian), archived at https://perma.cc/PK7E-RVPX.

Uruguay Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Law No. 17510, on Ratification of the Statute of Rome, DIARIO OFICIAL [D.O.], 

Aug. 7, 2002, available at http://www.impo.com.uy/bases/leyes/17510-2002 (in 

Spanish), archived at https://perma.cc/UC2A-LNB5; Law No. 18026 on 

Cooperation with International Criminal Court in the Fight Against Genocide, 

Crimes Against Humanity and Crimes of War arts. 1–5, D.O., Oct. 4, 2006, 

https://legislativo.parlamento.gub.uy/temporales/leytemp5961395.htm (in 

Spanish), archived at https://perma.cc/78DX-ZZ9R.

Uzbekistan Y Y N Y Y N Y Y N106 CRIMINAL CODE (Sept. 22, 1994) arts. 11 & 12, available at 

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c66c17f04420786aa164.htm/preview, archived at https://perma.cc/V9BKCDA4.

Vanuatu N N N N N N Y Y Y Geneva Conventions Act 1982, s 4, http://www.paclii.org/vu/legis/ 

consol_act/gca208, archived at https://perma.cc/U2PU-MXNB. 

Venezuela Y Y Y Y Y Y POLITICAL CONSTITUTION, GACETA OFICIAL [G.O.], Dec. 30, 1999, arts. 29, 45 

& 271, http://www.cne.gov.ve/web/normativa_electoral/constitucion/indice.php,

archived at https://perma.cc/Q5PG-3EDD; PENAL CODE, G.O., Oct. 20, 2000, 

arts. 3, 4.9, & 153–166, available at 

http://www.oas.org/juridico/spanish/mesicic3_ven_anexo6.pdf, archived at

https://perma.cc/H9EC-4HV6; Ratification of Statute of Rome, June 2, 2000,

available at 

http://www.iccnow.org/documents/LeyRat_Venezuela_02june00_sp.pdf, 

archived at https://perma.cc/52ME-3FH9.

Vietnam Y Y Y Y Y Y CRIMINAL CODE, No. 15/1999/QH10 (1999), arts. 342 & 343, available at 

http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/text.jsp?file_id=385615, archived at

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Yemen N N N N N N Y N N Presidential Decree of Law No. 21, 1998, arts. 20–23, available at 

http://hrlibrary.umn.edu/arabic/Yemeni_Laws/Yemeni_Laws15.pdf (in Arabic),

archived at https://perma.cc/YVG9-WVPP.
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Foreigners –

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Within 

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Zimbabwe Y Y Y Geneva Conventions Act 36 of 1981, § 3 (Feb. 1, 1984), 

http://www.parlzim.gov.zw/actslist/download/688_666a603c4a57e847a412a528b289e1af, archived at

https://perma.cc/2Z7G-RRG2. 

 1 Albania issued death sentences to a number of senior officials in the regime of former dictator Enver Hoxha, including former Supreme Court Justice Cela, former Deputy Interior Minister Ramizi, and Chief of the Secret Police Mino in 1994 for their involvement in 

prosecuting and sending people into internal exile for political reasons. Sokol Gjoka, Albanian Ex-Officials Get Death Sentence, UPI (May 24, 1996), http://www.upi.com/Archives/1996/05/24/Albanian-ex-officials-get-death-sentence/9281832910400/, archived at

https://perma.cc/ET5R-JQWD.

2 The Federal Criminal court ordered the arrest of Spanish nationals who perpetrated crimes against humanity during the Franco era in 1936 during the Spanish Civil war. Juzgado Criminal y Correccinal Federal 1 Causa Nro. 4.591/2.010, Oct. 30, 2014, Galvan Abascal 

Celso; Muñecas Aguilar; Giralte Gónzález, José Ignacio. . . y otros s/ imposición de torturas, http://www.cij.gov.ar/nota-14347-Lesa-humanidad--la-jueza-Servini-de-Cubr-a-orden--la-detenci-n-de-20-imputados-por-cr-menes-cometidos-durante-el-franquismo.html,

archived at https://perma.cc/PSX7-7LCV.

3 Foreigners may be prosecuted for offenses committed abroad if such offenses are defined by an international treaty concluded by Armenia.

4 The Australian military prosecuted 952 Japanese military personnel for war crimes following World War II. The more than three hundred military trials were conducted in several locations over a number of years under the War Crimes Act 1945 (Cth). See Georgina 

Fitzpatrick, War Crimes Trials, ‘Victor’s Justice’ and Australian Military Justice in the Aftermath of the Second World War, in KEVIN GELLER & GERRY SIMPSON, THE HIDDEN HISTORIES OF WAR CRIMES TRIALS 327–346 (2013), available at

http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199671144.001.0001/acprof-9780199671144-chapter-16, archived at https://perma.cc/NUR3-NGQ5. In the early 1990s, Australia prosecuted three men who were living in Australia, Ivan Polyukhovich, 

Mikolay Berezowsky, and Heinrich Wagner, under the War Crimes Act 1945 (Cth) (as amended) for alleged offenses committed in Europe during World War II. None of the men were convicted, with none of the cases being heard to completion. See Michael Kirby, 

Nuremberg Forty Years Later: War Crimes – An Australian Update (Paper presented at McGill University, Montreal, Canada, 1992), http://www.michaelkirby.com.au/images/stories/speeches/1990s/vol27/964-McGill_Uni,_Canada_-_War_Crimes_-

_An_Aus_Update.pdf, archived at https://perma.cc/C74A-EGFM; Irene Nemes, Punishing Nazi War Criminals in Australia: Issues of Law and Morality, 4(2) CURRENT ISSUES IN CRIM. JUSTICE 141 (Nov. 1992), 

http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/CICrimJust/1992/35.pdf, archived at https://perma.cc/J7D6-335W. Media reports have indicated that investigations related to alleged war crimes committed by Australian forces in Afghanistan are currently being conducted, and 

this was confirmed by the Defence Department. See Judge Probes Alleged ADF War Crimes in Afghanistan, SBS (Oct. 13, 2016), http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2016/10/13/judge-probes-alleged-adf-war-crimes-afghanistan, archived at https://perma.cc/ZR77-

DRL4; Andrew Greene, War Crime Allegations Uncovered During Inquiry into SAS, Commandos Yet to be Referred to AFP, ABC NEWS (Oct. 14, 2016), http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-10-15/australian-defence-force-war-crime-allegations-not-with-afp/7934952,

archived at https://perma.cc/KJD8-M2JH. 

5 In 1994, the Higher Regional Court of Salzburg acquitted Dusko Cvjetkovic, a commander of a Bosnian-Serb militia group, who was charged with genocide and genocide through aiding and abetting for his alleged role in ethnic cleansing in Kucice in 1992. 

Landesgericht Salzburg [Higher Regional Court of Salzburg], Docket No. 26 Vr 1335/94.

6 The ICT, which was “set up to investigate and bring to trial suspects accused of participation in the atrocities committed by the Pakistani Army and its local collaborators during the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971,” has indicted about a dozen persons, including 

nine leaders of the Jamaat-e-Islami (JI). Sudha Ramachandran, Flawed Justice in Bangladesh, DIPLOMAT (Oct. 31, 2013), http://thediplomat.com/2013/10/flawed-justice-in-bangladesh, archived at https://perma.cc/WY2U-3TGP. Three leaders of the JI have been given 

the death penalty. Shameema Rahman, Bangladesh: Execution of Two More War Crimes Convicts, GLOBAL LEGAL MONITOR (Nov. 25, 2015), http://www.loc.gov/law/foreign-news/article/bangladesh-execution-of-two-more-war-crimes-convicts, archived at

https://perma.cc/PG7K-V3CU; Shameema Rahman, Bangladesh: First Execution of War Criminal Convicted by International Crimes Tribunal, GLOBAL LEGAL MONITOR (Jan. 9, 2014), http://www.loc.gov/law/foreign-news/article/bangladesh-first-execution-of-warcriminal-convicted-by-international-crimes-tribunal, archived at https://perma.cc/KYH9-A3DY. 

7 Foreigners may be prosecuted for offenses committed abroad if a victim was a citizen of Belgium, a resident of Belgium, or a refugee granted asylum in Belgium.

8 Id.

9 Id.

10 Before 2003, when legislation largely limited international jurisdiction to cases with a nexus to Belgium, many complaints were brought before Belgian courts, including against Augusto Pinochet, Fidel Castro, Saddam Hussein, Ariel Sharon, and several U.S. officials 

including former President George H.W. Bush, Gen. Colin Powell, and Gen. Tommy Franks. U.S. Reaction to Belgian Universal Jurisdiction Law, 97 AM. J. INT’L L. 984–87 (Oct. 2003), https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/3133702.pdf, archived at 

https://perma.cc/T7LM-F8WE.

11 Veselin Vlahovic was sentenced to forty-five years in prison in 2013 for a campaign of murder, rape, and robbery against Bosnians and Croats in Sarajevo in 1992. Sarajevo’s ‘Monster of Grbavica’ Jailed for 45 Years, BALKANINSIGHT (Mar. 29, 2013), 

http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/veselin-vlahovic-sentenced-to-maximum-penalty, archived at https://perma.cc/L2JT-QH4E. Overall, 605 indictments for war crimes committed during the 1992–95 war have been issued as of May 2016. Bosnia War Criminals 

Sentenced to over 2000 Years to Date, ABOUTCROATIA (May 9, 2016), https://aboutcroatia.net/news/balkan/bosnia-war-criminals-sentenced-over-2000-years-date-20673, archived at https://perma.cc/A6FL-42EW.

12 See discussion in Bonolo Ramadi Dinokopila, The Prosecution and Punishment of International Crimes in Botswana, 7(5) J. INT’L CRIM. JUST. 1077, 1081 (2009). 
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 13 Scope and Application of the Principle of Universal Jurisdiction − Information and Observations of the Republic of Botswana, PERMANENT MISSION OF THE REPUBLIC OF BOTSWANA TO THE UNITED NATIONS (UN/BOT/83 (80) P3) (May 31, 2011), available at 

http://www.un.org/en/ga/sixth/66/ScopeAppUniJuri_StatesComments/Bostwana.pdf, archived at https://perma.cc/M78V-JNLK. 

14 This Decree promulgates the statute for the International Criminal Court (Rome Statute), but that statute has not been implemented in Brazil.

15 Applies when one of the victims is Cambodian. CRIMINAL CODE art. 20.

16 Id.

17 Id.

18 Carried out under a special statute for the trial of Khmer Rouge leaders, the Law on the Establishment of the Extraordinary Chambers, with Inclusion of Amendments as Promulgated on 27 October 2004 (NS/RKM/1004/006), 

https://www.eccc.gov.kh/sites/default/files/legal-documents/KR_Law_as_amended_27_Oct_2004_Eng.pdf, archived at https://perma.cc/3PTT-SAZF. This Law states that it is applying Cambodian penal law, international humanitarian law and custom, and 

international conventions recognized by Cambodia.

19 Specific rules of jurisdiction apply for “Offences outside of Canada” under section 8 of the Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act. These include if “(i) the person was a Canadian citizen or was employed by Canada in a civilian or military capacity, (ii) the 

person was a citizen of a state that was engaged in an armed conflict against Canada, or was employed in a civilian or military capacity by such a state, (iii) the victim of the alleged offence was a Canadian citizen, or (iv) the victim of the alleged offence was a citizen of 

a state that was allied with Canada in an armed conflict;” or if “after the time the offence is alleged to have been committed, the person is present in Canada.”

20 Id.

21 Id.

22 Désiré Munyaneza, born in Rwanda, was indicted for genocide/crimes against humanity/war crimes on Oct. 19, 2005, and was convicted for his crimes in R. c. Munyaneza, 2009 QCCS 2201 (CanLII), 

http://www.canlii.org/en/qc/qccs/doc/2009/2009qccs2201/2009qccs2201.html, archived at https://perma.cc/26ZH-53R2. In 2009, Jacques Mungwarere was charged with genocide. Murray Brewster, RCMP Charge Alleged Rwandan War Criminal After 6-Year Probe, 

GLOBE AND MAIL (Nov. 7, 2009), http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/rcmp-charge-alleged-rwandan-war-criminal-after-6-year-probe/article1355433, archived at https://perma.cc/UNR5-23YT. 

23 The PRC Criminal Law provides for universal jurisdiction over crimes which are stipulated in international treaties concluded or acceded to by China, and to which China agrees to exercise criminal jurisdiction within the scope of its treaty obligations. Nevertheless, 

China has rarely made any special criminal provisions defining the international crimes of genocide, crimes against humanity, or war crimes, and therefore prosecution of such crimes may have to be made for ordinary crimes wherever available.

24 There are only two Chinese criminal law provisions, one on servicemen “cruelly injuring innocent residents in an area of military operation or plundering their money or property” during wartime and the other on maltreatment of war prisoners, that may be deemed to 

be war crimes under the international criminal law.

25 Simone Gbagbo, wife of former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo, is currently being tried for crimes against humanity by the Court of Appeals of Abidjan. Vincent Duhem, Côte d’Ivoire : le procès de Simone Gbagbo reprend avec un témoignage confus [Côte 

d’Ivoire: The Trial of Simone Gbagbo Resumes with a Confusing Testimony], JEUNE AFRIQUE (Oct. 10, 2016), http://www.jeuneafrique.com/364283/societe/cote-divoire-proces-de-simone-gbagbo-reprend-temoignage-confus, archived at https://perma.cc/24QF-RRB3.

26 Tomislav Mercep was sentenced to five-and-a-half years in prison in 2016 for his participation in torturing and killing several dozen Serb civilians in late 1991. Croatian Police Official Mercep Jailed for War Crimes, BALKANINSIGHT (May 12, 2016), 

http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/tomislav-mercep-croatia-police-trial-verdict-05-12-2016, archived at https://perma.cc/3JQE-FBU4.

27 Rwanda Genocide Case, Supreme Court of Denmark, Apr. 26, 2012, http://domstol.fe1.tangora.com/media/-300016/files/2-2012.pdf, archived at https://perma.cc/B5U3-QU2H.

28 Foreigners may be prosecuted for offenses abroad if a victim was a Djiboutian national.

29 Id.

30 The cited provisions of the Dominican Criminal Procedure Code indicate that genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity may be prosecuted in Dominican courts. The Dominican Republic is party to the Rome Statute.

31 Ethiopia has prosecuted over five thousand individuals who were part of the Derg Regime, the government that ruled Ethiopia from 1974 through 1991; of these, over one thousand are said to have been convicted. Frode Elgesem & Girmachew Alemu Aneme, The 

Rights of the Accused: A Human Rights of Appraisal, THE ETHIOPIAN RED TERROR TRIALS: TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE CHALLENGED 33, 37 (Kjetil Tronvoll et al. eds., 2009); Les Neuhaus, Exiled Ethiopian Dictator Found Guilty of Genocide, WASHINGTON POST (Dec. 12, 

2006), http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/12/AR2006121200447.html, archived at https://perma.cc/RQW5-XH6M. 

32 Karl-Leonhard Paulov was convicted of crimes against humanity and sentenced to eight years in prison in 2000 for killing three members of the Estonian resistance movement in 1940. Former Stalinist Agent, 76, Starts Prison Sentence in Estonia, SEATTLE TIMES

(Dec. 21, 2000), http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=20001221&slug=TT5B2NNBL, archived at https://perma.cc/3V25-RHT7.

33 Ethiopia has prosecuted over 5000 individuals who were part of the Derg Regime, the government that ruled Ethiopia from 1974 through 1991; of these, over 1000 are said to have been convicted. Frode Elgesem & Girmachew Alemu Aneme, The Rights of the 

Accused: A Human Rights of Appraisal, THE ETHIOPIAN RED TERROR TRIALS: TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE CHALLENGED 33, 37 (Kjetil Tronvoll et al., eds., 2009); Les Neuhaus, Exiled Ethiopian Dictator Found Guilty of Genocide, WASHINGTON POST (Dec. 12, 2006), 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/12/AR2006121200447.html, archived at https://perma.cc/A4RX-FTRD. 

34 Rwanda Genocide Case, Helsinki Appeals Court, Mar. 31, 2012 (on file with author). 

35 Foreigners may be prosecuted for offenses abroad if a victim was a French national.

36 Id.

37 Id.
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 38 For example, on July 6, 2016, a criminal court in Paris convicted two former Rwandan officials on counts of crimes against humanity and genocide for acts committed during the 1995 Rwandan genocide. Nicolas Boring & Ricardo Wicker, France/Rwanda: Genocide 

Convictions, GLOBAL LEGAL MONITOR (July 29, 2016), http://www.loc.gov/law/foreign-news/article/francerwanda-genocide-convictions, archived at https://perma.cc/MXK6-H32G.

39 Nonresident foreigners may be prosecuted for especially grave crimes only if punishment for these crimes is prescribed by a treaty to which Georgia is a party.

40 The Federal Public Prosecutor is in charge of prosecuting cases brought under the German International Criminal Code. Courts Constitution Act, § 120, ¶ 1 No. 8 GVG, in conjunction with § 142a, § 1. In most cases, like the case against former US Defense Secretary 

Donald Rumsfeld, he has refused to prosecute and the motions to compel prosecution were denied by the Federal Court of Justice. The first case that was tried under the International Criminal Code was a case against the leaders of the Forces Démocratiques de 

Libération du Rwanda (FDLR) from Rwanda. On September 28, 2015, the Higher Regional Court of Stuttgart sentenced the leaders of the FDLR to thirteen and eight years respectively for aiding and abetting crimes against humanity and for membership in a foreign 

terrorist group after the four-year trial concluded. Oberlandesgericht (OLG) Stuttgart [Higher Regional Court of Stuttgart], Docket No. 3 StE 6/10. A second trial concluded on December 29, 2015, at the Higher Regional Court of Frankfurt in which the court sentenced 

Onesphore Rwabukombe to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole under genocide charges for his part in the massacre against Rwanda’s Tutsi minority. Oberlandesgericht [OLG] Frankfurt [Higher Regional Court of Frankfurt], Docket No. Az. 4--3 StE 

4/10 -- 4 -- 1/15, http://www.lareda.hessenrecht.hessen.de/lexsoft/default/hessenrecht_lareda.html#docid:7543056, archived at http://perma.cc/Q7QT-L75D.

41 Section 70 of the International Criminal Court Act 2007 allows proceedings to be brought against an individual who has committed the offenses of genocide, crimes against humanity, or war crimes and later becomes a resident of Gibraltar.

42 Id.

43 Id.

44 Applies only if foreigners acquire Greek nationality after the commission of an act.

45 Id.

46 Id.

47 On Feb. 25, 2016, two former military officers, Cols. Esteelmer Francisco Reyes Girón and Heriberto Valdez Asig, were found guilty of crimes against humanity against eleven Maya Q’eqchi’ women and were sentenced to 120 and 240 years in prison respectively. 

Naomi Roht-Arriaza, Guilty Verdict in Guatemala Trial on Sexual Slavery and Sexual Violence as Crimes Against Humanity, INTLAWGRRLS (Mar. 2, 2016), https://ilg2.org/2016/03/02/guilty-verdict-in-guatemala-trial-on-sexual-slavery-and-sexual-violence-as-crimesagainst-humanity, archived at https://perma.cc/3M89-RLY6. On May 10, 2013, a Guatemalan trial court found former head of state General José Efraín Ríos Montt guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity against the Maya Ixil population; he was sentenced to 

eighty years in prison. The codefendant in the same case, former chief of intelligence retired General José Mauricio Rodríguez Sánchez, was acquitted of both charges. Jo-Marie Burt, Ríos Montt Convicted of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity: The Sentence and 

Its Aftermath, INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MONITOR (May 13, 2013), https://www.ijmonitor.org/2013/05/rios-montt-convicted-of-genocide-and-crimes-against-humanity-the-sentence-and-its-aftermath, archived at https://perma.cc/C482-53DS. On May 20, 2013, the 

Guatemalan Constitutional Court vacated the verdict on procedural grounds and ordered a retrial. Mike McDonald, Guatemala’s Top Court Annuls Ríos Montt Genocide Conviction, REUTERS, May 21, 2013, http://www.reuters.com/article/us-guatemala-riosmonttidUSBRE94K04I20130521, archived at https://perma.cc/BD9Z-LE3L. In June 2016, the retrial against Ríos Montt and Rodríguez Sánchez was definitively suspended by the First Court of Appeals, which upheld an “Amparo appeal” filed by the plaintiffs claiming that 

the trial was being conducted under illegal proceedings. Jo-Marie Burt, Appeals Court Upholds Suspension of Ríos Montt Genocide Trial, INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MONITOR (June 3, 2016), https://www.ijmonitor.org/2016/06/appeals-court-upholds-suspension-of-riosmontt-genocide-trial, archived at https://perma.cc/B85F-LYYH.

48 Bela Biszku was sentenced to five years and six months in prison in 2014 for ordering security forces to open fire on civilians, killing 49 people in 1956. The court verdict was later voided by a higher court. Hungary 1956 Revolt: Bela Biszku Jailed for War Crimes, 

BBC (May 13, 2014), http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-27398373, archived at https://perma.cc/WT76-6XBB.

49 In 2001, two ad hoc human rights courts were established under the 2000 Law, one to hear the cases related to alleged abuses by Indonesian military and police personnel and by East Timorese militia in East Timor and the other for the 1984 Tanjung Priok massacre in 

Jakarta that involved Indonesian soldiers. The courts started sitting in early 2002. The court on East Timor convicted six of the eighteen defendants, who were all charged with failing to prevent crimes against humanity, but all of the convictions were overturned on 

appeal. Twelve soldiers were convicted for the 1984 massacre, but these convictions were also overturned on appeal. See Indonesia’s Court for East Timor a “Whitewash,” HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH (Dec. 20, 2002), https://www.hrw.org/news/2002/12/20/indonesiascourt-east-timor-whitewash, archived at https://perma.cc/2M96-G4AD; Indonesia: Acquittals Show Continuing Military Impunity, HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH (July 12, 2005), https://www.hrw.org/news/2005/07/12/indonesia-acquittals-show-continuing-military-impunity, 

archived at https://perma.cc/YES4-DFMC; Mark Cammack, The Indonesian Human Rights Court for East Timor: Liability for Crimes Against Humanity, in TRIALS FOR INTERNATIONAL CRIMES IN ASIA (Kirsten Eve Sellars ed., 2015), available at 

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2569492 (abstract only), archived at https://perma.cc/22AW-AZZQ; Indonesia and East Timor: Against Impunity, For Justice, APSNET POLICY FORUM, NAUTILUS INSTITUTE FOR SECURITY AND SUSTAINABILITY (Apr. 

24, 2008), http://nautilus.org/apsnet/indonesia-and-east-timor-against-impunity-for-justice, archived at https://perma.cc/N63B-RUC9.

50 Iran signed the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court on Dec. 31, 2000, but has not yet ratified it. 10. Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (July 17, 1998) (status as at Oct. 26, 2016), 

https://treaties.un.org/Pages/ViewDetails.aspx?src=TREATY&mtdsg_no=XVIII-10&chapter=18&clang=_en, archived at https://perma.cc/V493-JVS9. Iran has not adopted domestic legislation on international crimes and/or the International Criminal Court; however, 

legislation on war crimes trials was proposed in 2004, the text of which is on the website of Iran’s Parliament. جنگی جنایتکاران جنایات بھ رسیدگی دادگاه تشکیل طرح] Bill on War Crimes Trials] ( 1383/2907) [Oct. 20, 2004]), http://rc.majlis.ir/fa/legal_draft/show/809517, 

archived at https://perma.cc/9UPU-V2FN. Iran ratified the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide, 1948, on Aug. 14, 1956, and the Geneva Conventions, 1949, on Feb. 20, 1957. Treaties, States Parties and Commentaries: Islamic Republic of 

Iran, ICRC, https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/applic/ihl/ihl.nsf/vwTreatiesByCountrySelected.xsp?xp_countrySelected=IR (last visited Oct. 26, 2016), archived at https://perma.cc/S9TQ-7SAH.

51 Saddam Hussein was tried for crimes against humanity in 2005. See Issam Saliba, Saddam Hussein Trial, LAW.GOV (July 2007), http://www.loc.gov/law/help/hussein. 

52 Crimes against humanity are limited to those committed during the Nazi regime (Jan. 30, 1933, to May 8, 1945) in hostile countries (Germany or its allies during the Nazi regime).

53 War crimes are limited to those committed during World War II (Sept. 1, 1939, to Aug. 14, 1945) in hostile countries (Germany or its allies during the Nazi regime). There is no express exclusion of nationals but nationals are unlikely to have committed war crimes 

under the conditions of the Law.

54 CrimA 336/61 Adolf Hitler v. Attorney General, 16 PISKE DIN [PD] (Supreme Court decisions) 2032 (1962); CrimA 347/88 Ivan (John) Demjanjuk v. Israel, 47(4) PD p. 221 (1993).

55 When Japan ratified the ICC Statute, the Japanese government concluded that acts of genocide and crimes against humanity could be mostly punished as traditional crimes, such as murder and rape. Therefore, Japan did not create crimes with these particular names. 

Yasuo Nakauchi, Japan’s Participation in the ICC and Subsequent Issues, RIPPO TO CHOSA No. 266, 21, at 27–8 (Apr. 2007), http://www.sangiin.go.jp/japanese/annai/chousa/rippou_chousa/backnumber/2007pdf/20070406021.pdf (in Japanese), archived at

https://perma.cc/FQ8F-AUL4.
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 56 Japan may apply its laws on crimes of murder, rape, etc., committed outside Japan by a non-Japanese if a Japanese victim is involved. CRIMINAL CODE art. 3-2. 

57 Nakauchi, supra note 54.

58 Applies when a Japanese victim is involved. CRIMINAL CODE art. 3-2. 

59 Id. 

60 Among war crimes, offenses that are not covered by the Penal Code are covered by the Act on Punishment of Acts of Significant Violation of International Humanitarian Law.

61 Section 53 of the International Criminal Court (Jersey) Law 2014 allows proceedings to be brought against an individual who has committed the offenses of genocide, crimes against humanity, or war crimes and later becomes a resident of Jersey or the United 

Kingdom.

62 Id.

63 The Act applies to a foreigner who commits the crime against South Korea or against its people outside the territory, or to a foreigner who resides in South Korea. 

64 Id.

65 Id.

66 Ex-president Kurmanbek Bakiev was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2014 for the massacre of protesters in April 2010; his sentence was later changed to thirty years of imprisonment. Kyrgyz Supreme Court Abolishes Life Imprisonment of Kurmanbek Bakiyev and 

Sentences Him to 30 Years in Prison, KABAR.KG (July 29, 2016), http://www.kabar.kg/eng/law-and-order/full/16568, archived at https://perma.cc/L9XZ-MSLQ. 

67 Nonresident foreigners may be prosecuted if such a prosecution is required by an international treaty binding for Latvia.

68 Nikolai Larionov, a former KGB officer, was sentenced to five years in prison in 2003 on charges of crimes against humanity and genocide committed during the deportation of Latvians in 1940s. Soviet KGB Officers on Trial in Latvia, SPUTNIKNEWS.COM (June 9, 

2004), https://sputniknews.com/onlinenews/2004060939762460, archived at https://perma.cc/X27H-QTVS.

69 Liechtenstein coordinates its Criminal Code with Austria. Austria recently enacted new Criminal Code provisions for crimes against humanity and war crimes and expanded the jurisdiction to prosecute crimes abroad to these crimes as an implementation of the 

substantive law of the Rome Statute of the ICC. It is to be expected that Liechtenstein will enact similar provisions soon. A report by the government of Liechtenstein indicated that the amendment of the Criminal Code to insert the crime of aggression will be done 

simultaneously with the amendment to insert crimes against humanity and war crimes, probably by the end of 2016. Bericht und Antrag der Regierung an den Landtag des Fürstentums Liechtenstein betreffend die Änderungen des Römer Statuts des internationalen 

Strafgerichtshofs vom 10. und 11. Juni 2010 [Report and Motion of the Government to the Parliament of the Principality of Liechtenstein Concerning the Amendments of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court of June 10 and 11, 2010], Berichte und 

Anträge der Regierung an den Landtag Nummer [BuA-Nr.] [Reports and Motions from the Government to the Parliament No.] 2012/6, p. 17, http://bua.gmg.biz/BuA/default.aspx?nr=6&year=2012&content=ges, archived at http://perma.cc/SER6-2YC6. 

70 According to section 65, ¶ 1, no. 2 of the Criminal Code of Liechtenstein, a crime committed abroad is subject to the criminal law of Liechtenstein if it is considered a crime in both countries (reciprocity) and if the perpetrator is a foreigner who cannot be extradited to 

the country where the crime was committed for reasons unrelated to the nature or characteristic of the crime.

71 Konstantin Mikhailov, a former Soviet police officer, was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2011 for ordering the murder of seven Lithuanian officials in 1991. Lithuanian Appeals Court Upholds Life Sentence in 1991 Medininkai Checkpoint Massacre, DELFI (June 

6, 2016) (available by subscription).

72 In 2002, former Mexican President Luis Echeverría was accused of committing acts of genocide against a group of students who were killed in 1968. The charges were dismissed in court. OPEN SOCIETY JUSTICE INITIATIVE, UNDENIABLE ATROCITIES: CONFRONTING 

CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY IN MEXICO 26 (June 2016), https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/sites/default/files/undenialble-atrocities-2nd-edition-20160808.pdf, archived at https://perma.cc/5776-Y888.

73 The New Criminal Code of Mongolia, scheduled to be in force on Sept. 1, 2016, but postponed for implementation until July 2017, also only has a provision on genocide, not on crimes against humanity or war crimes. AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL, MONGOLIA:

LOGISTICAL CHALLENGES SHOULD NOT DELAY ABOLITION OF DEATH PENALTY AND MEASURES TO COMBAT TORTURE, ASA 30/4806/2016 (Sept. 13, 2016), http://www.refworld.org/docid/57d904b34.html, archived at https://perma.cc/YP4S-S9RC. 

74 Six former soldiers, Govedarica, Gligic, Tarle, Lucic, Menzalin, and Gojnic, received prison sentences ranging from one and a half years to four years in 2010 for torture, inhumane treatment of and infliction of bodily harm on 169 POWs and civilians during the 

1990s. Montenegro Sentences Six for War Crimes, BALKAN INSIGHT (May 17, 2010), http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/montenegro-sentences-six-for-war-crimes/1458/5, archived at https://perma.cc/JE5D-AXF5.

75 Though specific crimes like genocide, crimes against humanity, etc. are not specifically enumerated in this law, an offense labeled “gross violation of human rights,” mentioned and defined under section 2(j), may apply. The definition includes, among other acts, 

“any kind of inhuman acts inconsistent with the international human rights or humanitarian law or other crime against humanity.” Other criminal provisions of Nepal’s General Code may be used to prosecute those recommended by the Commissions to the Government 

of Nepal for this offense under section 29.

76 Id. 

77 Id.

78 For genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes, applies if a suspect in the Netherlands has committed a crime outside the Netherlands. 

79 For genocide and crimes against humanity, applies if the victim is a Dutch national.

80 The Act was last amended by Wet van 6 juli 2016, houdende uitvoering van de op 10 en 11 juni 2010 te Kampala aanvaarde wijzigingen van het Statuut van Rome inzake het Internationaal Strafhof (Trb. 2011, 73) [Act of July 6, 2016, Implementing the Amendments 

of June 10 and 11, 2010, to the Rome Statute of the International Court Accepted in Kampala (Treaty Series 2011, 73)], but the amendment is not yet in force. STAATSBLAD No. 304 (Aug. 31, 2004), https://zoek.officielebekendmakingen.nl/stb-2016-304.html, archived 

at https://perma.cc/2QW5-S7ZL. The International Crimes Act implements Council Decision 2003/335/JHA, of 8 May 2003, Concerning the Investigation and Prosecution of Genocide, Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes, 2003 O.J. (L 118) 12, http://eurlex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX%3A32003D0335, archived at https://perma.cc/D6YP-TXZ4. The Director of Legal Affairs of the Netherlands Defense Ministry has stated that “[t]he definitions of the crimes contained in this Act are to a large extent 
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based on those contained in the ICC Statute, while taking into account the experience of the Netherlands in implementing other relevant international treaties.” Ministry of Defense of the Netherlands, Letter to Mr. Bede Sheppard of Human Rights Watch (Aug. 19, 

2010), https://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/related_material/schools-netherlands.pdf (appending an English translation of the International Crimes Act), archived at https://perma.cc/949W-ND44. International crimes committed before October 1, 2003, must be 

handled under previous law: the Wartime Offenses Act of July 10, 1952; the Genocide Convention Implementation Act of 1964; and the Act Implementing the Convention Against Torture of 1988. HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH, UNIVERSAL JURISDICTION IN EUROPE: THE 

STATE OF THE ART (June 27, 2006), http://www.hrw.org/en/reports/2006/06/27/universal-jurisdiction-europe-0?print#_ftn359, archived at https://perma.cc/83HZ-AQWF. 

81 Norwegian Supreme Court , Apr. 13, 2011, http://www.domstol.no/no/Enkelt-domstol/-Norges-Hoyesterett/Avgjorelser/Avgjorelser-2011/Avdeling/Straffesaker/Domfellelse-for-ugjerninger-begatt-under-den-vapnede-konflikten-i-Bosnia-Hercegovina-i-1992/ , 

archived at https://perma.cc/KJ4E-ZBHK; Oslo District Court, Case No. TOSLO-2012-106377 (on file with author). 

82 Alexandru Visinescu, a former prison commander, was sentenced to twenty years in prison in 2015 for the deaths of twelve political prisoners between 1956 and 1963. Communist-Era Romanian Prison Commander Jailed for 20 Years, THE GUARDIAN (July 24, 

2015), https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/24/romania-alexandru-visinescu-jailed-ramnicu-sarat, archived at https://perma.cc/XD4X-FAH4. Another ex-prison commander, Ion Ficior, was sentenced to twenty years in prison in 2016. Romanian Labour Camp 

Chief Ficior Jailed for Periprava Crimes, BBC (Mar. 30, 2016), http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35926275, archived at https://perma.cc/UT67-GV7K.

83 Foreigners may be prosecuted for offenses abroad if a victim was a Russian citizen or resident, or if prosecution of a crime is required by international obligations accepted by Russia.

84 Special courts called Gacaca Community Courts were set up to judge perpetrators of the 1994 Rwandan genocide on a “Truth and Reconciliation” model. About Gacaca Community Courts, Gacaca Community Justice (2016), http://gacaca.rw/about, archived at

https://perma.cc/NQ26-7NCP. Rwandan criminal courts have also started prosecuting high-level perpetrators of the genocide, such as Jean Uwinkindi, who was sentenced to life in prison by Rwanda’s High Court in 2015. Rwanda Genocide: Jean Uwinkindi Sentenced 

to Life in Prison, BBC (Dec. 30, 2015), http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-35202424, archived at https://perma.cc/SKH4-XDRY.

85 In May 2016, a Senegalese court convicted Hissene Habre, Chad’s former ruler, of crimes against humanity. Hissene Habre: Chad’s Ex-Ruler Convicted of Crimes Against Humanity, BBC (May 30, 2016), http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-36411466, archived 

at https://perma.cc/Y8CL-CNHU.

86 Veljko Maric was sentenced to twelve years in prison by a Belgrade court in 2012 after being found guilty of war crimes for killing a civilian in the Croatian village of Rastovac in October 1991. Croatian War Criminal Temporarily Freed for Treatment, BALKAN 

INSIGHT (Apr. 18, 2016), http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/croatian-war-criminal-temporary-released-for-health-reasons-04-18-2016, archived at https://perma.cc/YZ98-TJYU.

87 The Special Court for Sierra Leone convicted nine individuals of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Chacha Murungu, Prosecution and Punishment of International Crimes by the Special Court for Sierra Leone, PROSECUTING INTERNATIONAL CRIMES IN 

AFRICA 97, 99 (Chaha Murungu & Japhet Biegon eds., 2011); Ex-Liberian Leader Gets 50 Years for War Crimes, NEW YORK TIMES (May 30, 2012), http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/31/world/africa/charles-taylor-sentenced-to-50-years-for-war-crimes.html, archived 

at https://perma.cc/V27A-WVZJ.

88 Article 4 of the Penal Code provides that a public servant, being a permanent resident of Singapore, is subject to universal jurisdiction when acting or purporting to act in the course of his employment. 

89 Berisav Popov was sentenced in absentia to five years in prison in 2013 for killing a civilian and destroying property in 1991. Yugoslav Colonel Convicted of War Crimes in Slovenia, BALKAN INSIGHT (Aug. 27, 2013), http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/jnacolonel-sentenced-for-war-crimes-in-slovenia, archived at https://perma.cc/QV7M-JV7Z.

90 South Africa recently submitted a written notice to the Secretary-General of the United Nations indicating its intention to withdraw from the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court; the government will soon introduce a bill before Parliament to repeal the 

Implementation of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court Act, 2002. Press Briefing to the Media by Minister Michael Masutha on the Matter of International Criminal Court and Sudanese President Omar Al Bashir (Oct. 21, 2016), 

http://www.dirco.gov.za/docs/speeches/2016/masu1021.htm, archived at https://perma.cc/ZX5Q-X7VM.

91 The Constitutional Court has affirmed the competence of Spanish courts to prosecute crimes of genocide, terrorism, and torture perpetrated in Guatemala, Argentina, and Chile. Sentencia del Tribunal Constitucional (STC 237/2005), Sept. 26, 2005, B.O.E., Oct. 28, 

2005 (Guatemala), https://www.boe.es/diario_boe/txt.php?id=BOE-T-2005-17753, archived at https://perma.cc/LCG6-U6SQ; Sentencia del Tribunal Supremo (STS 1362/2004), Nov. 15,2004 (Argentina), available at 

http://www.derechoshumanos.net/jurisprudencia/2004-11-15-STS-(Argentina)-(Competencia)-Sentencia-competencia.htm, archived at https://perma.cc/4EXF-9AP8; Sentencia del Tribunal Supremo (STS 319/2004), Mar. 8, 2004 (Chile), available at 

http://www.derechoshumanos.net/jurisprudencia/2004-03-08-STS-(Chile-CasoBrady)-(Competencia)-Sentencia-competencia.htm, archived at https://perma.cc/FQ94-HVDN.

92 Stockholm District Court, B 18271-11, June 20, 2013 (on file with author), Press Release, Fällande dom i Rwandamålet (June 20, 2013), http://www.stockholmstingsratt.se/Om-Sveriges-Domstolar/Sveriges-Domstolars-pressrum/Nyhetsarkiv/2013/Fallande-dom-iRwandamalet/, archived at https://perma.cc/QXZ6-ABSB; Stockholm District Court Case No. B 12882-14 , May 16, 2016, (on file with author), Press Release, Svensk dömd för folkmord i Rwanda (May 16, 2016), http://www.stockholmstingsratt.se/Omtingsratten/Nyheter-och-pressmeddelanden/Svensk-domd-for-folkmord-i-Rwanda/, archived at https://perma.cc/THW8-PFS8. 

93 Crimes committed abroad by Swiss nationals will only be prosecuted according to art. 7, ¶ 1 of the Criminal Code if the offense is also liable to prosecution at the place of commission (reciprocity), (b) the person concerned is in Switzerland or is extradited to 

Switzerland due to the offense; and (c) under Swiss law extradition is permitted for the offense, but the person concerned is not being extradited. Crimes committed abroad by foreigners will only be prosecuted according to ¶ 1 if (a) the request for extradition was 

refused for a reason unrelated to the nature of the offense; or (b) the offender has committed a particularly serious felony that is proscribed by the international community.

94 In 2001, the Swiss Military Court of Appeal upheld a fourteen-year sentence for a former Rwandan mayor, Fulgence Niyonteze, who was sent to prison in Geneva for his part in the 1994 Rwandan genocide. He was convicted on charges of murder, incitement to 

murder, and war crimes. Militärkassationsgericht [Military Court of Appeals], Apr. 27, 2001, Entscheidungen des Militãrkassationsgerichtes aus den Jahren 1997–2005, Band 12 [Decisions of the Military Court of Appeals from 1997–2005, Vol. 12], No. 21, p. 92, 

https://eu.alma.exlibrisgroup.com/view/delivery/41BIG_INST/12329504630001791, archived at http://perma.cc/8SEL-3Q2M.

95 The Regulation on the Crime of Genocide states its provisions apply “regardless of the status of the offender.” It is debatable, however, whether this means the court may exercise universal jurisdiction over the crime of genocide. If it does not mean universal 

jurisdiction, the ordinary Criminal Code provisions on criminal jurisdiction apply, according to which foreigners who have committed crimes abroad may be prosecuted if the victim was Taiwanese. Wang Muyi, Analyzing Application of Our Regulation on the Crime of 

Genocide from the Perspective of the Relevant International Practice of Universal Jurisdiction [從普遍管轄權的相關國際實踐評析我國「殘害人群治罪條例」之適用], CHINESE (TAIWAN) SOCIETY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW, http://www.csil.org.tw/, archived at

https://perma.cc/C3UA-SXGA. 

96 Foreigners may be prosecuted for offenses abroad if the victim was the Tadjik state or a Tadjik national, or if the crime is identified by an international treaty.

97 Foreigners may be prosecuted for offenses abroad if a victim was a Togolese national.
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 98 Id.

99 Id.

100 Turkey acceded to the Convention on Genocide on July 31, 1950, but did not fulfill the obligation to criminalize acts of genocide in domestic law before the adoption and entry into force of the new Criminal Code on June 1, 2005. Mahmut Koca, The Crime of 

Genocide in the New Turkish Penal Code, 42 ANNALES, No. 59, at 255, 261 (2010), http://istanbul.dergipark.gov.tr/download/article-file/7042, archived at https://perma.cc/6HRA-ZKKQ; 1. Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Dec. 

9, 1948) (status as at Oct. 31, 2016), https://treaties.un.org/Pages/ViewDetails.aspx?src=TREATY&mtdsg_no=IV-1&chapter=4&clang=_en, archived at https://perma.cc/XX6J-FXAV.

101 However, article 13(3) provides, “[e]ven where a conviction or acquittal pursuant to the offences listed in section one subsections (a) and (b) have [sic] occurred in a foreign country, criminal proceedings in Turkey shall be conducted upon the request of the Ministry 

of Justice.” See also Koca, supra note 99, at 282–83.

102 Foreigners may be prosecuted for offenses abroad if a crime was committed against the interests of Turkmenistan and in cases defined by international treaties.

103 The statute includes jurisdiction over alleged offenders present in the United States, regardless of where the offense was committed. 

104 The statute includes jurisdiction over prosecutions of war crimes abroad, provided the victim is a member of the Armed Forces of the US or a national of the US.

105 Foreigners may be prosecuted for crimes against interests of Ukraine and offenses specified by international treaties.

106 Foreigners may be prosecuted for crimes specified by Uzbekistan’s international agreements.