c) Abusing positions and/or powers;
d) Against persons who are performing their official duties;
e) Against persons who educate, nurture, look after or medically treat them.
3. The offenders may also be banned from holding certain posts, practicing certain
occupations or doing certain jobs for one to five years.
Article 122.- Slander
1. Those who trump up or spread stories knowing them to be fabricated in order to
infringe upon the honor or damage the legitimate rights and interests of other
persons or make up a story that other persons commit crimes and denounce them
before the competent agencies shall be subject to warning, non-custodial reform for
up to two years or a prison term of between three months and two years.
2. Committing the crime in one of the following circumstances, the offenders shall
be sentenced to from one to seven years of imprisonment:
a) In an organized manner;
b) Abusing their positions and powers;
c) Against more than one person;
d) Against their own grand fathers, grand mothers, fathers, mothers or persons who
teach, nurture, look after, educate and/or medically treat them;
e) Against persons who are performing their official duties;
f) Slandering other persons about committing very serious or particularly serious
crimes.
3. The offenders may also be subject to a fine of between one million and ten million
dong, a ban from holding certain posts, practicing certain occupations or doing
certain jobs for one to five years.
Chapter XIII
CRIMES OF INFRINGING UPON CITIZENS• DEMOCRATIC FREEDOMS
Article 123.- Illegal arrest, custody or detention of people
1. Those who illegally arrest, hold in custody or detain other persons shall be subject
to warning, non-custodial reform for up to two years or a prison term of between
three months and two years.
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