QuestionsQuestions (Republic Act No. 7890)
Republic Act No. 7890 amends Article 286, Section Three, Chapter Two, Title Nine of Act No. 3815 (the Revised Penal Code).
Any person, without authority of law, who by means of violence, threats, or intimidation prevents another from doing something not prohibited by law, or compels him to do something against his will.
The offender must willfully employ violence, threats, or intimidation to prevent the victim from doing something not prohibited by law, or to compel the victim to do something against his will.
Violence, threats, or intimidation.
The victim is either prevented from doing something not prohibited by law, or compelled to do something against his will.
Prision correccional and a fine not exceeding Six thousand pesos.
When the coercion is committed in violation of the exercise of the right of suffrage, or for the purpose of compelling another to perform any religious act, or to prevent him from exercising such right or doing such act.
No for prevention: it covers preventing the victim from doing something not prohibited by law; for compulsion, it covers compelling the victim to do something against his will whether it be right or wrong.
It distinguishes criminal coercion from acts justified or authorized by law.
It repealed Section 261, paragraphs (d)(1) and (2), Article XXII of BP Blg. 881.
All election laws, decrees, executive orders, rules and regulations, or parts thereof, inconsistent with RA 7890’s provisions.
Upon its approval.
February 20, 1995.
They are repealed to the extent they are inconsistent with the Act’s provisions.