deter him or her from such action, or whereby a person
attacks another threatening action which would result in
suffering, injury or nuisance, because he or she has
testified or otherwise made a statement under
examination before a public authority, or in order to
prevent him or her from making such a statement.
Art. 5. Offences against the freedom of the press shall also
include any act committed by means of printed matter and
punishable under law whereby a person:
1. deliberately publishes an official document to which the
public does not have access, if he or she obtained
access to the document in the public service, while
carrying out official duties or in any other comparable
circumstance;
2. publishes information, and thereby deliberately
disregards a duty of confidentiality under the special act
of law referred to in Article 3, paragraph one, point 3;
3. publishes information, when the Realm is at war or
exposed to the immediate danger of war, concerning
facts the disclosure of which constitutes an offence
against the security of the Realm other than an offence
under Article 4.
Art. 6. Provisions of law relating to penal sanctions for
offences under Articles 4 and 5 apply also in a case in which
the offence is deemed to be an offence against the freedom of
the press.
Provisions concerning private claims on account of offences
against the freedom of the press are laid down in Chapter 11. If
the defendant is convicted of an offence specified in Article 4,
point 14 or 15, and the printed matter is a periodical, an order
may be issued, on request, for the verdict to be inserted in the
periodical.
Art. 7. Printed matter containing an offence against the
freedom of the press may be confiscated.
Confiscation of printed matter means the destruction of all
copies intended for dissemination and the taking of such action
with respect to forms, lithographic stones, stereotypes, plates
and other such material adapted exclusively to the printing of
the matter as will render impossible their misuse.
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