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Article 133
 

(Amended by Article 287 of Law 5728 on 23 January 2008)


Those who prevent the boards and committees mentioned in this law from convening or from fulfilling their function, by committing fraudulent acts or by using violence, coercion or threat, by any means shall be sentenced to imprisonment from two to five years.


If the offences mentioned above are committed by using weapons, the term of the prison sentence cannot be less than 3 years. If the mentioned offences are committed by the collaboration of at least three people, one of which is armed, then such offenders shall be sentenced to imprisonment for five to fifteen years.