Section 7: Any person who intentionally—

7. Any person who intentionally—

(a) seizes or detains; and

(b) threatens to kill, to injure or to continue to detain,

any other person (hereinafter referred to as a hostage), in order to compel a third party, namely a State, an intergovernmental organisation, a natural or juridical person, or a group of persons to do or abstain from doing any act as an explicit or implicit condition for the release of the hostage, is guilty of an offence of taking a hostage.

Offences relating to causing harm to internationally protected persons