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Statute of limitations does not constitute a bar to surrender where crimes against humanity are at issue. Such crimes offend transnational interests and violate jus cogens, namely those norms of positive law universally recognised as binding by all States, which, being placed at the apex of the international legal order, prevail over any other rule of law, whether treaty-based or customary, and are incorporated into the domestic legal system pursuant to Article 10 of the Constitution. The principle of the non-applicability of statutory limitations to crimes against humanity is also affirmed by the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, ratified by Uruguay. Moreover, Article 4 of Law No. 110 of 14 July 2017 excludes the possibility of recognising any form of immunity for foreign nationals investigated or convicted abroad for acts amounting to torture.