Article 296

A person who, by using violence or threats of bodily injury to another person or by interfering in any other unlawful way with the liberty of action or civil rights of another, compels that other person to do a thing or to permit it to be done, or to refrain from doing it or from permitting it to be done,

is guilty of coercion, 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.