Criminal Code of Brcko District of Bosnia and Herzegovina UT

interest of the Brcko District or Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Disclosing State Secret Article 142 (1) An authorized person who passes, delivers or makes available information or documents entrusted to him and which constitute a state secret of the Brcko District or Bosnia and Herzegovina to another person, contrary to law or regulation enacted on the basis of law, shall be sentenced to prison from one to ten years.

(2) Whoever discloses to another information or documents while being aware that they represent a secret of the Brcko District or Bosnia and Herzegovina and which such person obtain in an illicit manner shall be sentenced to prison up to five years.

(3) If the offense referred to in Paragraph 1 of this Article has been committed during a state of war or imminent danger of war or has endangered the security, economic power of the Brcko District or Bosnia and Herzegovina or has resulted in endangering the military power of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the perpetrator shall be sentenced to prison from three to fifteen years.

(4) If the act referred to in Paragraph 1 of this Article has been committed out of negligence, the perpetrator shall be sentenced to prison from three months to three years.

(5) The term “secret� stands for the information or documents which have been declared confidential by virtue of law, other regulation or decision of the competent body passed in accordance with law, and the disclosure of which has caused or might have caused harmful consequences for political and economic interests of the Brcko District or Bosnia and Herzegovina or might have had harmful consequences for military interests of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Sending and Transferring Armed Groups, Weapons and Ammunition to the Territory of the Brcko District and Bosnia and Herzegovina Article 143 A person who sends or transfers to the territory of the Brcko District or Bosnia and Herzegovina armed groups, terrorists, spies, saboteurs, weapons, explosive, poisons, equipment, ammunition or other material for the purpose of committing criminal offenses described in this Chapter, shall be sentenced to prison from one to ten years.

Inducing National, Racial or Religious Hatred, Discord or Hostility Article 144 (1) A person who publicly incites or fans national, racial or religious hatred, discord or hostility between constitutional nations and other residents of Bosnia and Herzegovina or the Brcko District, shall be sentenced to prison from one to five years.

(2) If the act referred to in Paragraph 1 of this Article has been committed by coercion, molestation, jeopardizing of safety, exposing to derision of national, ethnic or religious symbols, damaging belongings of another, desecrating monuments, memorials or graves, the perpetrator shall be sentenced to prison from one to eight years.

(3) A person who commits the act referred to in Paragraphs 1 and 2 of this Code through the abuse of his position or authority or if these acts resulted in disorder, violence, or other grave consequences for the joint life of constitutional nations and others living in Bosnia and Herzegovina or the Brcko District, shall be punished for the act referred to in Paragraph 1 of this Article, by prison from one to eight years, and for the act referred to in Paragraph 2 of this Article by prison from one to ten years.

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