Norma relacionada
Sierra Leone
Practice Relating to Rule 96. Hostage-Taking
Sierra Leone’s Instructor Manual (2007) provides: “Do not take hostages.”
Sierra Leone, The Law of Armed Conflict. Instructor Manual for the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces (RSLAF), Armed Forces Education Centre, September 2007, p. 34.
Sierra Leone’s Geneva Conventions Act (2012) states:
2. Grave breaches of the [1949 Geneva] Conventions and the [1977] First [Additional] Protocol.
(1) A person of whatever nationality commits an offence if that person, whether within or outside Sierra Leone[,] commits, aids, abets or procures any other person to commit a grave breach specified in –
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(d) article 147 of the Fourth Geneva Convention [on, inter alia, the grave breach of taking of hostages].
Sierra Leone, Geneva Conventions Act, 2012, Section 2(1)(d).
