a hideout or a meeting place, shall be punishable with imprisonment of between five to twenty years. ARTICLE 55: No penalty for sedition shall be applied on persons who were part of these gangs, without serving in any command capacity and without holding any employment or office therein, left upon being warned by civilian or military authorities, or even those arrested outside the premises of the seditious meeting, without attempting to resist and were unarmed weapons. In these instances, they shall be punished only for the felonies and misdemeanours that they commit personally; however, they may receive a residence prohibition for a period of between five to ten years. ARTICLE 56: Rifles, revolvers and pistols, all machines, and all sharp, pointed, blunt instruments or utensils shall be considered weapons. Pocket knives and scissors, as well as mere sticks shall be considered weapons only in as much as they have been used. ARTICLE 57: Sentences for the perpetrators of conspiracies or other crimes against State security shall not apply to those who before, the execution or attempted execution of these conspiracies or these crimes and before any legal proceedings are launched, are the first to give the government, administrative officials or the judicial police, information about these conspiracies or crimes and their perpetrators or accomplices and who, eve since the start of the legal proceedings, facilitated the arrest of the said perpetrator or accomplices. Convicted persons who give this information or facilitated these arrests may however receive a residence prohibition for a maximum duration of five years. CHAPTERI III: REGIONALIST AND RELIGIOUS FELONIES AND MISDEMEANOURS ARTICLE 58 : Any statement, any act that could create or cause the creation of racial or ethnic discrimination, any statement, any act intended to provoke or maintain regional propagation, any propagation of news that could undermine national unity or the reputation of the state, any protest contrary to freedom of conscience and freedom of worship capable of pitting citizens against one another, shall be punishable with imprisonment of between one to five years, and optionally residence prohibition of between five to ten years. CHAPITER IV: FELONIES AND MISDEMEANOURS RELATED TO THE EXERCISE OF CIVIC RIGHTS ARTICLE 59: When through gathering, assault or threats are used to prevent one or more citizens from exercising their rights, each of those guilty shall be punished with imprisonment of between six months at least to at most two years, and loss their civil rights for at least five years and ten years at most. ARTICLE 60 : If this offence was committed following a concerted plan meant for execution either in the entire country, or in one or more administrative constituencies, the sentence shall be between five to ten years of imprisonment and between ten to twenty years of residency prohibition. ARTICLE 61 : Any citizen who is a member of a polling station, any teller who, during operations, falsifies or attempts to falsify, removes or tries to remove, adds or attempts to add ballots, registers or attempts to register on the ballots of illiterate voters names other than those that would have been declared to them, misleads or attempts to mislead on the meaning of the colours of ballots papers, prevents or attempts to prevent a citizen from exercising his/her right to vote, shall be punished with two years of imprisonment as well as a suspension of his/her right to vote and be eligible for five years at least and ten years at most. Any other person guilty of the offences stated herein above shall be punished with imprisonment of at least one month and six months at most as well as the suspension of the right to vote and be eligible for five years at least and ten years at most. ARTICLE 62:Whoever, using donations or bequests in cash or in kind, promises of bequeaths, favours, 15