SECTION IV: DESTRUCTION AND OPENING OF LETTERS
ARTICLE 131 : The total or partial destruction or opening of letters, cards, telegrams or packages given to the
post office shall be punished with imprisonment of between eleven days to one year and a fine of between 20,000
to 240,000 francs or only one of these two penalties.
SECTION VII: ILLEGALLY EXTENSION OF THE EXERCISE OF PUBLIC AUTHORITY
ARTICLE 136: Any legally dismissed, relieved, suspended or banned civil servant who, after having
officially been informed of this fact, continues fulfilling his/her duties and who, given elective or
temporary duties, fulfilled them after his/her replacement, or when his/her duties end, shall be punished
with imprisonment of between six months at least to two years at most, and a fine of between 20,000 to
500, 000 francs. He/she shall be banned from holding any public office or employment for at least five years and ten
years at most.
CHAPTER XII: RESISTANCE, DISOBEDIENCE AND OTHER BREACHES COMMITED AGAINST
PUBLIC AUTHORITY
SECTION I: REBELLION
ARTICLE 137: Any attack, any resistance with violence, assault or threat against public or ministerial officers, civil
servants, agents or officials of public authority, acting to enforce laws, rules or orders from public authority, shall be
considered rebellion.
Should the rebellion be committed by more than two persons armed with weapons, visible or hidden
instruments or projectiles, those guilty shall be punished with imprisonment of between five to twenty years,
and optionally residency prohibition of between one to twenty years. If it occurs without weapons, the penalty
shall be imprisonment of between one to five years. The penalty of residency prohibition of between one to
five years may also be ordered.
Should the rebellion be committed by less than three persons armed with weapons, visible or hidden
instruments or projectiles, it shall be punished with imprisonment of between six months to two years. If it occurs
without weapons, the penalty shall be imprisonment of between eleven days to six months.
ARTICLE 138: In the event of rebellion with a gang or crowd, article 55 of this code shall apply to the rebels
without status or employment in the gang, who would have withdrawn upon receiving the first warning from the
public authority, or even earlier, if they were arrested only outside the place of the rebellion, and without any
new resistance and no weapon.
ARTICLE 139: Any meeting of individuals to commit a felony or misdemeanour shall be considered an armed
gathering when more than two people carry apparent weapons.
ARTICLE 140: Those found with hidden weapons and are part of a troop or a gathering considered unarmed shall
be punished individually as if they had been part of an armed troop or gathering.
ARTICLE 141 : Those who commit felonies and misdemeanours during or on the occasion of a rebellion, shall
be punished with the penalties stated for each of these offences, if they are higher than those for rebellion.
ARTICLE 142: In all cases where only imprisonment is ordered for rebellion, those guilty may be also be ordered to
pay a fine of between 20,000 to 240,000 francs.
ARTICLE 143: The following gatherings, which are formed, with or without weapons and are accompanied by
violence or threats against administrative authority, law enforcement or the officials representing them, shall be
considered and punished as rebellious gatherings :
1° By people working in workshops or factories;
2° By people admitted into State hospital facilities;
3° By detainees.
ARTICLE 144: The penalty for rebellion by detainees shall be applied subject to the following
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