Question & AnswerQ&A (Commonwealth Act No. 202)
November 18, 1936.
The crime of sedition.
By persons who rise publicly and tumultuously to attain by force, intimidation, or by other means outside legal methods, certain objectives such as preventing the promulgation or execution of laws, preventing government officials from exercising their functions, inflicting acts of hate or revenge on public officers or private persons, or despoiling property for political or social ends.
1) To prevent the promulgation or execution of any law or holding of any popular election. 2) To prevent the National Government, or any provincial or municipal government, or public officer from freely exercising its functions or executing any administrative order.
The penalty is prision correctional in its maximum period and a fine not exceeding 2,000 pesos.
Acts such as inciting others through speeches, writings, emblems, or other means to commit sedition, uttering seditious words, publishing scurrilous libels against government authorities, disturbing lawful officers in their functions, instigating unlawful meetings, suggesting rebellious conspiracies, or concealing such evil practices.
The penalty is arresto mayor and a fine ranging from 200 to 1,000 pesos.
Publishing false news that may endanger public order, encouraging disobedience to laws or authorities, publishing official resolutions without authority, and printing or distributing anonymous publications without a real printer's name.
It is unlawful to publish or cause to be published any official resolution or document without proper authority or before it has been officially published.
Upon its approval on November 18, 1936.