PENAL CODE of the Democratic Republic of Timor Leste SECTION III OTHER CRIMES Article 222. Hindering or disturbing a funeral procession, ceremony or worship 1. Any person who hinders or disturbs a funeral procession or ceremony or a religious worship service by means of violence or threat of violence or any other means of coercion, is punishable with up to 2 years imprisonment or a fine. 2. Prosecution depends on the filing of a complaint. Article 223. Profane an object or place of worship 1. Any person who, in order to cause alarm or social unrest, profanes an object of worship or religious veneration, is punishable with up to 2 years imprisonment or a fine. 2. Any person who offends or insults another person on grounds of religious belief or office in order to cause alarm or social unrest incurs the same penalty. 3. Prosecution depends on the filing of a complaint. Article 224. Destruction, theft, hiding or profaning of a corpse 1. Any person who, against or without the will of the party concerned and except for cases authorized by law, steals, destroys or hides cadavers or parts thereof, or ashes of a deceased person, is punishable with up to 2 years imprisonment or a fine. 2. The same penalty shall apply to any person who profanes cadavers, parts thereof, or ashes of deceased persons by committing acts that are offensive to the respect due the deceased. 3. The attempt is punishable. 4. Prosecution depends on the filing of a complaint. Article 225. Failure to fulfill an obligation to provide food assistance 1. Any person who has an obligation to provide food assistance, and being in a position to do so fails to fulfill such an obligation, in such a manner that jeopardizes the basic food security of the beneficiary, is punishable with up to 3 years imprisonment or a fine, even if assistance provided by another party removes said danger. 2. Prosecution depends on the filing of a complaint. Article 226. Abduction of a minor 1. Any person who abducts or refuses to deliver a minor to the person entrusted with custody of the same, or who orders the minor to run away, is punishable with up to 3 years imprisonment or a fine. 2. Whenever any of the acts above is committed with violence or threat of violence, the penalty is 1 to 4 years imprisonment. 3. Prosecution depends on the filing of a complaint. Article 227. Failure to provide assistance 1. Any person who, in the event of serious need, namely caused by disaster, accident, public calamity or situation of collective danger threatening the life, physical integrity or freedom of another person, fails to provide the same with 61