A conspiracy to commit one of the offences provided for in this article and the suggestion to form a
conspiracy, shall be punishable with the penalties stated in article 41 based on the differences that are stated
therein.
ARTICLE 48:Those who commit the
following acts shall be punishable
with death:
1° raise, or have armed troops, hire, or enlist soldiers or give them or get weapons or ammunition for them
without an order or an authorisation from the statutory authority;
2° take, without any right or legitimate reason, over the command of troops and any other public force,
garrison or a camp of this garrison, an administrative centre or a locality ;
3° keep, in violation of a government order, command of public forces; the commanders of the said force
who keep their troops gathered after an order has been given for them to be dismissed or separated.
ARTICLE 49: Any person who, can be in charge of state security officials, requests or orders for them, requests or
orders their action or use in violation government orders, shall be punishable with a term of imprisonment. If this
request and order were followed, the offender shall be punishable with death.
ARTICLE 50: Life imprisonment shall be handed down to persons who, taking part in an insurrectional movement,
are found with weapons or ammunitions, occupy or attempt to take over public buildings or private properties; set
up barricades, use violence and threats to prevent state security forces from gathering ; cause or facilitate the
assembly of insurgents using flags, rallying signs or any other means : break or attempt to break telegraph or
telephone lines;
intercept or attempt to intercept communications between law enforcement officials; use
violence or the threat of weapons and ammunitions, looting of shops to take over posts, shops , arsenals or other
public institutions or by disarming law enforcement officials.
Those who use their weapons shall be punished with deaths.
ARTICLE 51: Whosoever commits any of the following acts shall be punishable with death:
1° burns or destroys, using an explosive device, State buildings, warehouses, arsenals or other property;
2° heads armed gangs or serves in any command capacity whatsoever therein, either to invade State
estates or properties, towns, posts, warehouses, arsenals, or loot and share public funds, public or national properties
or those of other citizens, to take or resist state security officials acting against the perpetrators of these crimes ;
3° the same sentence shall apply to those who would have directed the association, raised or caused to be
raised, organised or caused the organisation of gangs or knowingly and intentionally provided or gave them
allowances, weapons or ammunitions and instruments of crime or sent substances, or in any other manner,
established contacts with the gang leaders.
ARTICLE 52: In case one or several of the crimes stated in articles 45 and 47 of this code are committed or an attempt
simply made by a group to commit them, the death penalty shall be applied, irrespective of rank, to all those who are part
of the gang and are arrested in the place of their seditious meeting.
Whoever led the sedition or served in any command capacity in the gang shall be punished with the same
penalties, even if he/she was not caught on the premises.
ARTICLE 53: Excluding the case where the aim or outcome of the seditious meeting was the commission of one
or several of the crimes stated in articles 45 and 47 of this code, those who are part of the above mentioned
gangs, but do not serve in any command capacity, and are arrested on the premises, shall be punishable with
imprisonment of between five to twenty years.
ARTICLE 54: Those who, knowing the goal or nature of the said gangs, willingly gave them housing,
14
Select target paragraph3
Connect to a paragraph
Connect to an entity
Disable highlights
Add to table of contents