Article 20Act No. 3815, Sec./Art. 20

Accessories who are exempt from criminal liability.-The penalties prescribed for accessories shall not be imposed upon those who are such with respect to their spouses, ascendants, descendants, legitimate, natural, and adopted brothers and sisters, or relatives by affinity within the same degrees, with the single exception of accessories falling within the provisions of paragraph 1 of the next preceding article.

TITLE THREE

PENALTIES

CHAPTER ONE

PENALTIES IN GENERAL

REVISED PENAL CODE TEXT AND SPECIAL PENAL LAWS

Legislature, wholly or partially, of any of their powers or

prerogatives. (As amended by R.A. 6968).

Article 134-A. Coup d'etat; How committed. - The crime

of coup d'etat is a swift attack accompanied by violence,

intimidation, threat, strategy or stealth, directed against

duly

constituted

authorities

of

the

Republic

of the

Philippines,

or

any

military

camp

or

installation,

communications

network,

public

utilities

or

other

facilities

needed

for

the

exercise

and

continued

possession of power, singly or simultaneously carried out

anywhere in the Philippines by any person or persons,

belonging to the military or police or holding any public

office of employment with or without civilian support or

participation for the purpose of seizing or diminishing

state power. (As amended by R.A. 6968).

Article 135. Penalty for rebellion, insurrection or coup

d'etat. - Any person who promotes, maintains, or heads

rebellion

or

insurrection

shall

suffer

the

penalty

of

reclusion perpetua.

Any

person

merely

participating

or

executing

the

commands of others in a rebellion shall suffer the penalty

of reclusion temporal.

Any person who leads or in any manner directs or

commands others to undertake a coup d'etat shall suffer

the penalty of reclusion perpetua.

Any person in the government service who participates,

or

executes

directions

or

commands

of

others

in

undertaking a coup d'etat shall suffer the penalty of

prision mayor in its maximum period.

Any

person

not

in

the

government

service

who

participates, or in any manner supports, finances, abets or

aids in undertaking a coup d'etat shall suffer the penalty

of reclusion temporal in its maximum period.

When the rebellion, insurrection, or coup d'etat shall be

under the command of unknown leaders, any person

who in fact directed the others, spoke for them, signed

receipts and other documents issued in their name, as

performed similar acts, on behalf or the rebels shall be

deemed a leader of such a rebellion, insurrection, or coup

d'etat. (As amended by R.A. 6968, approved on October

24, 1990).

Article 136. Conspiracy and proposal to commit coup

d'etat, rebellion or insurrection. - The conspiracy and

proposal to commit coup d'etat shall be punished by

prision mayor in minimum period and a fine which shall

not exceed One million pesos (P1,000,000)

The conspiracy and proposal to commit rebellion or

insurrection shall be punished respectively, by prision

correccional in its maximum period and a fine which

shall not exceed One million pesos (P1,000,000) and by

prision correccional in its medium period and a fine not

exceeding Four hundred thousand pesos (P400,000). (As

amended by R.A. 6968, approved October 24, 1990).

Article 137. Disloyalty of public officers or employees. -

The penalty of prision correccional in its minimum period

shall be imposed upon public officers or employees who

have failed to resist a rebellion by all the means in their

power, or shall continue to discharge the duties of their

offices under the control of the rebels or shall accept

appointment to office under them. (Reinstated by E.O.

No. 187).

Article 138. Inciting a rebellion or insurrection. - The

penalty of prision mayor in its minimum period shall be

imposed upon any person who, without taking arms or

being in open hostility against the Government, shall

incite others to the execution of any of the acts specified

in

article

134

of

this Code, by means of speeches,

proclamations,

writings,

emblems,

banners

or

other

representations tending to the same end. (Reinstated by

E.O. No. 187).

Article 139. Sedition; How committed. - The crime of

sedition is committed by persons who rise publicly and

tumultuously in order to attain by force, intimidation, or

by other means outside of legal methods, any of the

following objects:

1. To prevent the promulgation or execution of any law or

the holding of any popular election;

2. To prevent the National Government, or any provincial

or municipal government or any public officer thereof

from freely exercising its or his functions, or prevent the

execution of any administrative order;

3. To inflict any act of hate or revenge upon the person or

property of any public officer or employee;

4. To commit, for any political or social end, any act of

hate or revenge against private persons or any social

class; and

5. To despoil, for any political or social end, any person,

municipality or province, or the National Government (or

the Government of the United States), of all its property or

any part thereof.

Article 140. Penalty for sedition. - The leader of a sedition

shall suffer the penalty of prision mayor in its minimum

period and a fine not exceeding Two million pesos

(P2,000,000)

Other

persons

participating

therein

shall

suffer

the

penalty of prision correccional in its maximum period and

a fine not exceeding One million pesos (P1,000,000).

(Reinstated by E.O. No. 187).

Article 141. Conspiracy to commit sedition. - Persons

conspiring to commit the crime of sedition shall be

punished by prision correccional in its medium period

and a fine not exceeding Four hundred thousand pesos

(P400,000). (Reinstated by E.O. No. 187).

Article 142. Inciting to sedition. - The penalty of prision

correccional in its maximum period and a fine not

exceeding Four hundred thousand pesos (P400,000) shall

be imposed upon any person who, without taking any

direct part in the crime of sedition, should incite others to

the accomplishment of any of the acts which constitute

sedition, by means of speeches, proclamations, writings,

emblems, cartoons, banners, or other representations

tending to the same end, or upon any person or persons

who

shall

utter

seditious

words

or

speeches, write,

publish,

or

circulate

scurrilous

libels

against

the

Government, or any of the duly constituted authorities

thereof, or which tend to disturb or obstruct any lawful

officer in executing the functions of his office, or which

tend to instigate others to cabal and meet together for

unlawful purposes, or which suggest or incite rebellious

conspiracies or riots, or which lead or tend to stir up the

people against the lawful authorities or to disturb the

peace of the community, the safety and order of the

Government, or who shall knowingly conceal such evil

practices.

(Reinstated

by

E.O.

No. 187, amended by

Republic Act No. 10951, [August 29, 2017]).

Chapter Two CRIMES AGAINST POPULAR

REPRESENTATION

Section One. - Crimes against legislative bodies and similar

bodies

Article 143. Act tending to prevent the meeting of

Congress and similar bodies. - The penalty of prisión

correccional or a fine ranging from Forty thousand pesos

(P40,000) to Four hundred thousand pesos (P400,000), or

both, shall be imposed upon any person who, by force or

fraud, prevents the meeting of Congress or of any of its

committees

or

subcommittees,

Constitutional

Commissions or committees or divisions thereof, or of any

provincial board or city or municipal council or board.

( Reinstated by E.O. No. 187, amended by Republic Act No.

10951, [August 29, 2017]).

Article 144. Disturbance of proceedings. - The penalty of

arresto mayor or a fine from Forty thousand pesos

(P40,000) to Two hundred thousand pesos (P200,000)

shall be imposed upon any person who disturbs the

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