War crime—enforced sterilisation
268.63 War crime—enforced sterilisation
A person (the perpetrator) commits an offence if:
the perpetrator deprives one or more persons of biological reproductive capacity; and
the deprivation is not effected by a birth‑control measure that has a non‑permanent effect in practice; and
the perpetrator’s conduct is neither justified by the medical or hospital treatment of the person or persons nor carried out with the consent of the person or persons; and
the perpetrator’s conduct takes place in the context of, and is associated with, an international armed conflict.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 25 years.
In subsection (1):
consent does not include consent effected by deception or by natural, induced or age‑related incapacity.
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