{"schemaVersion":1,"recordType":"legal-article","id":"law:eri:code:penal:2015:article:196","workId":"law:eri:code:penal:2015","expressionId":"law:eri:code:penal:2015:en","title":"Disturbance of Religious or Ethnic Feelings","number":"196","language":"en","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/196/","hierarchy":{"part":"PART II — THE SPECIAL PART","book":"BOOK II — OFFENCES AGAINST THE INTERESTS OF THE STATE","title":null,"chapter":"Chapter 8. — Offences against Public Order"},"paragraphs":[{"id":"lead","number":"","text":"A person who intentionally and publicly disparages a ceremony or rite of any lawful religious group, or profanes a place, image or object used for such religious ceremonies or ceremonies relating to any ethnic group,","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/196/#lead","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":158,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/158/?article=196&paragraph=lead#article-196-lead"}]},{"id":"u2","number":"","text":"is guilty of disturbance of religious or ethnic feelings, a Class 1 petty offence, punishable with a definite term of imprisonment of not less than 6 months and not more than 12 months, or a fine of 20,001 – 50,000 Nakfas, to be set in intervals of 2,500 Nakfas.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/196/#u2","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":158,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/158/?article=196&paragraph=u2#article-196-u2"}]}],"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."}