CEVAP:

• the act must constitute a criminal offence under most national legal systems, such as murder, kidnapping, hostage-taking, bombing, torture, etc.;

• the act must be aimed at compelling a state, an international organization, or a nonstate entity to do or to abstain from doing any act, either by spreading terror among the population or by means of violent action or threat thereof directed against a state, a state official, an intergovernmental organization, a public or private body;

• the act must be motivated by political, religious, or otherwise ideological reasons and not by private motives