Without prejudice to any more severe penalty, a penalty of imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years and a fine not exceeding fifteen thousand Qatar Riyals (15.000QR) or one of these two penalties, shall apply to any person who participates in a crowd composed of at least five persons in a public place, with a view to perpetrating an offence, infringing public security and who remains in the crowd after the agents of public force have ordered them to leave the place. The same penalty shall apply to any person who participates in a crowd while holding a knife weapon, canes or other solid instrument not usually held in normal circumstances. If the person demonstrating in a crowd carries a fire arm, the penalty shall be imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years. Part 3 Crimes Related to Public Position Chapter One Bribery Article 140 Any pubic officer who asks for or accepts, for himself or another party, money, benefit or a simple promise for something in return for undertaking any activity or abstaining from carrying out any activity under the remits of his office shall be considered a receiver of bribery; the penalty of imprisonment for a term not exceeding ten years and a fine not exceeding what he received or promised shall apply to him, provided that it shall not be less than five thousand Qatar Riyals (5000QR). The same penalty shall apply to any public officer who asks for or accepts, for himself or another party, money, benefit or a simple promise for something in return for undertaking an activity or abstaining from carrying out an activity, which is not included in the remits of his office, but who believes by error or pretends that it so . Any special benefits received by an officer or another party from the sale of a movable asset or real estate at a price higher than its true value, its purchase at a price lower than its true value, or from any contract concluded between the the briber and the bribed shall be considered bribery. Article 141 The penalty stipulated in the preceding Article shall apply to any person who offers money, benefit or promise to a public officer in the said respect, and if the officer accepts the offer or the promise. The same penalty shall apply to the intermediary between the briber and the bribed. The briber or the intermediary shall be exempted from the penalty if he informs the relevant authority about the offence or declares it before its discovery even after its realization. Article 142 The penalty of imprisonment for a term not exceeding seven years and a fine not exceeding fifteen thousand Qatar Riyals (15.000QR) shall apply to any public officer who accepts money or benefit from a person for whom he does or abstains from doing an activity of the said office, or who after the accomplishment of the said activity or not so doing, seeks to obtain a reward for his activity or not so doing despite there being no previous agreement. Article 143 The penalty of imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years and a fine not exceeding fifteen thousand Qatar Riyals (15.000QR) shall apply to: 1- Any person who receives money or a benefit pretending that it is bribery for an officer, while he intends to keep it or part of it for himself. 2- Any person who receives money or profit while knowing its purpose even if the officer intended to receive the bribery did not appoint him or did not know about him, provided that he is not an intermediary in the bribery.

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