Title
Amendments to Penal Code on Rebellion and Sedition
Law
Presidential Decree No. 38
Decision Date
Nov 7, 1972
In response to a state of martial law, Presidential Decree No. 38 amended several articles of the Revised Penal Code to deter rebellion, insurrection, sedition, and subversion committed by radical and lawless elements involved in a conspiracy to seize political and state power through force and violence.
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Q&A (PRESIDENTIAL DECREE No. 38)

Such a person shall suffer the penalty of reclusion perpetua.

The penalty of reclusion temporal is imposed.

Any person who directed others, spoke for them, signed receipts or documents issued in their name, or performed similar acts on behalf of the rebels shall be deemed the leader.

The penalty is prision mayor.

They shall suffer prision mayor in its medium period.

It is punished with reclusion temporal in its minimum period.

The leader suffers reclusion temporal in its maximum period; other participants suffer prision mayor in its maximum period.

Prision mayor in its maximum period and a fine not exceeding 6,000 pesos.

Using speeches, proclamations, writings, emblems, cartoons, banners, or similar representations to incite others; uttering seditious words; publishing scurrilous libels against the government; instigating to rebel conspiracies or riots; and concealing such acts.

The penalty of prision mayor in its minimum and medium period.

Using a fictitious name: prision correctional; concealing true name: arresto mayor.

The penalty of prision mayor in its maximum period.


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