Summary Article 132-142

Article 132: This article deals with the interruption of religious worship. The law penalizes any public
officer or employee who shall prevent or disturb the ceremonies or manifestations of any religion. If the
crime is committed with violence or threats, the penalty is imprisonment (prision correccional) and a
fine not exceeding 2,000 pesos.

Article 133: This article pertains to offending religious feelings. It penalizes anyone who, in a place
devoted to religious worship or during the celebration of any religious ceremony, shall perform acts
notoriously offensive to the feelings of the faithful. The penalty is arresto mayor (imprisonment) and a
fine ranging from 200 to 1,000 pesos.

Article 134: This article discusses rebellion or insurrection. It defines rebellion as rising publicly and
taking arms against the Government for the purpose of removing allegiance to it, depriving the Chief
Executive or the Legislature of their powers or prerogatives. The penalty is reclusion perpetua (life
imprisonment) when the rebellion results in serious consequences, and reclusion temporal
(imprisonment for a certain period) when it doesn't.

Article 135: This article provides penalties for leaders and participants in any rebellion or insurrection.
Leaders are penalized with reclusion perpetua, while participants are penalized with reclusion temporal.

Article 136: This article addresses the conspiracy and proposal to commit a coup d'état, rebellion or
insurrection. It penalizes those who conspire to commit the crime of coup d'état, rebellion or
insurrection and those who propose its commitment.

Article 137: This article is about the disloyalty of public officers or employees. It penalizes 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.

Article 138: This article deals with inciting a rebellion or insurrection. It penalizes anyone 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.

Article 139: This article talks about sedition. Sedition is defined as a public and tumultuous uprising to
attain by force, intimidation, or strategy any of the following objectives: to prevent the promulgation or
execution of law or the holding of a popular election; to prevent the National Government, or any
provincial or municipal government, or any public officer from freely exercising its or his functions; to
inflict any act of hate or revenge upon the person or property of any public officer or employee; to
commit, for any political or social end, any act of hate or revenge against private persons or any social
class; and to despoil, for any political or social end, any person, municipality or province, or the National
Government of all its property or any part thereof.

Article 140: This article provides penalties for leaders of a sedition. The leaders are penalized with
prision mayor in its minimum and medium periods, and a fine not exceeding 10,000 pesos.

Article 141: This article addresses conspiracy to commit sedition. It penalizes those who conspire to
commit the crime of sedition.
Article 142: This article deals with inciting to sedition. It penalizes anyone 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.