1. Any person commits an offence within the meaning of this Convention if that person unlawfully and intentionally:
(a) Possesses radioactive material or makes or possesses a device:
(i) With the intent to cause death or serious bodily injury; or
(ii) With the intent to cause substantial damage to property or to the environment;
(b)Uses in any way radioactive material or a device, or uses or damages a nuclear facility in a manner which releases or risks the release of radioactive material:
(i) With the intent to cause death or serious bodily injury; or
(ii) With the intent to cause substantial damage to property or to the environment; or
(iii)With the intent to compel a natural or legal person, an international organization or a State to do or refrain from doing an act
Official use of X-ray equipment and other radiation technology by secret police
Some former East German dissidents claim that the Stasi used X-ray equipment to induce cancer in political prisoners.[16] After the fall of the Socialist Republic of Romania, files released indicated that the romanian securitate had intentionally induced cancer in striking miners.
Similarly, some anti-Castro activists claim that the Cuban secret police sometimes used radioactive isotopes to induce cancer in "adversaries they wished to destroy with as little notice as possible".[17] In 1997, the Cuban expatriate columnist Carlos Alberto Montaner called this method "the Bulgarian Treatment", after its alleged use by the Bulgarian secret police