Question & AnswerQ&A (PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 1974)
Conspiracy to commit rebellion or insurrection shall be punished by prision mayor in its maximum period and a fine not exceeding 12,000 pesos.
The proposal to commit rebellion or insurrection shall be punished by prision mayor in its medium period and a fine not exceeding 10,000 pesos.
Inciting to rebellion or insurrection is punishable by reclusion temporal in its minimum period and a fine not exceeding 15,000 pesos.
Any person who, without taking arms or being in open hostility against the Government, incites others to execute acts specified in Article 134 of the Revised Penal Code by means of speeches, proclamations, writings, emblems, banners, or other representations tending to the same end.
Persons conspiring to commit sedition shall be punished by prision mayor in its medium period and a fine not exceeding 10,000 pesos.
Inciting to sedition is punishable by prision mayor in its maximum period and a fine not exceeding 12,000 pesos.
Acts include inciting others to commit sedition by speeches, proclamations, writings, emblems, cartoons, banners, or other representations; uttering seditious words or speeches; publishing or circulating scurrilous libels against the Government or authorities that tend to disturb lawful officers, instigate unlawful assemblies, suggest or incite rebellious conspiracies or riots, or stir up the people against lawful authorities.
The penalty is prision mayor in its minimum period and a fine not exceeding 8,000 pesos.
They shall be punished with prision mayor in its minimum period and a fine not exceeding 8,000 pesos, and conviction includes forfeiture and/or sequestration of the mass media facilities and other related instruments used in the commission of the offense.
The penalty is prision correccional in its maximum period and a fine not exceeding 4,000 pesos, or both. For a second conviction, the fine may increase up to 6,000 pesos with the same imprisonment.
The penalty is arresto mayor in its maximum period and a fine not exceeding 1,000 pesos. For a second conviction, the penalty increases to prision correccional in its maximum period and a fine not exceeding 5,000 pesos.
Organizers or leaders of meetings attended by armed persons for committing crimes, meetings inciting violent crimes, or meetings held for propaganda against the Government intended to destabilize or support rebellion are liable to prision mayor in its medium period.
They suffer arresto mayor in its maximum period unless they are armed, in which case the penalty is prision correccional in its maximum period.
Possession of an unlicensed firearm at such a meeting presumes the person is a leader or organizer of the meeting for the purpose of committing crimes.
Founders, directors, presidents, and officers of associations organized for criminal purposes or contrary to public morals face prision correctional in its maximum period, while mere members face arresto mayor in its maximum period.