Section 95A - Enforced disappearance

(1) A person shall not cause the enforced disappearance of another person.

(2) A person who causes the enforced disappearance of another person commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a maximum penalty of life imprisonment and a minimum penalty of five years imprisonment.

(3) Subsections (1) and (2) apply to a person who acts with the authorisation, support or acquiescence of the government.

(4) For the purpose of this section, a person causes the enforced disappearance of another person if that person arrests, detains, abducts, kidnaps or by any other means restricts the freedom of movement of that other person, by confining that other person in a manner that

(a) deprives that other person, of that other person’s liberty;

(b) conceals the fate or whereabouts of that other person; or

(c) places that other person outside the protection of the law.