IHL DATABASE Customary IHL
all IHL databases
Related Rule
Romania
Practice Relating to Rule 96. Hostage-Taking
III. Military Manuals
Romania’s Soldiers’ Manual (1991) provides that hostage-taking of civilians and captured combatants is prohibited. 
Romania, Manualul Soldatului, Ghid de comportare în luptă, Asociaţia Română de Drept Umanitar (ARDU), 1991, pp. 15 and 34.
IV. National Legislation
Romania’s Penal Code (1968) punishes the hostage-taking of the wounded, sick and shipwrecked, members of civil medical services, the Red Cross or similar organizations, prisoners of war, or of all persons in the hands of the adverse party. 
Romania, Penal Code, 1968, Article 358(b).