{"schemaVersion":1,"recordType":"legal-article","id":"law:eri:code:penal:2015:article:123","workId":"law:eri:code:penal:2015","expressionId":"law:eri:code:penal:2015:en","title":"Insults to the National Flag of Eritrea or Other Countries","number":"123","language":"en","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/123/","hierarchy":{"part":"PART II — THE SPECIAL PART","book":"BOOK II — OFFENCES AGAINST THE INTERESTS OF THE STATE","title":null,"chapter":"Chapter 1. — Offences Endangering the Security of the State"},"paragraphs":[{"id":"p1","number":"1","text":"A person who intentionally and in public tears down, destroys, defaces, or insults the National Flag of Eritrea,","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/123/#p1","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":110,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/110/?article=123&paragraph=p1#article-123-p1"}]},{"id":"p1-tail","number":"","parentId":"p1","text":"is guilty of insults to the national flag of Eritrea, a Class 2 petty offence, punishable with a definite term of imprisonment of not less than 1 month and not more than 6 months, or a fine of 5,001 – 20,000 Nakfas, to be set in intervals of 1,000 Nakfas.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/123/#p1-tail","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":111,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/111/?article=123&paragraph=p1-tail#article-123-p1-tail"}]},{"id":"p2","number":"2","text":"A person who intentionally and in public tears down, destroys, defaces, or insults the National Flag of any other country duly hoisted in Eritrea,","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/123/#p2","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":111,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/111/?article=123&paragraph=p2#article-123-p2"}]},{"id":"p2-tail","number":"","parentId":"p2","text":"is guilty of insults to the national flag of a country other than Eritrea, a Class 3 petty offence, punishable with a definite term of imprisonment of not more than 1 month, or a fine of 500 – 5,000 Nakfas, to be set in intervals of 500 Nakfas.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/123/#p2-tail","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":111,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/111/?article=123&paragraph=p2-tail#article-123-p2-tail"}]}],"caution":"English-language 2015 Ministry of Justice edition. Refworld catalogues this English expression as an unofficial translation; Eri Atlas has not independently verified the translation."}