Article (23): An accomplice is whoever provides collateral assistance with the intent of committing a crime and such assistance may be prior to the execution of the crime, concurrently therewith, or subsequently thereto, whenever as such agreed to prior to the implementation of the crime accordingly. However, subsequent assistance, which is not agreed to prior to the perpetration of the crime, shall be punished as a special crime. Punishment for Participation in a Crime Article (24): For crimes of slandering, anyone who participates in the crime as a perpetrator, provocateur, or accomplice shall be punished by the punishment ordained thereto, unless otherwise stipulated by Law; however, if the intent of a participant differs from the intent of the other participants, each participant shall be punished according to such intent. Circumstances Article (25): All contributors of In-Kind mitigating circumstances realized shall benefit from such circumstances, even though they are not aware of them; only those who are aware of inured circumstances are liable as such and personal conditions or circumstances shall have an impact only on those they apply to, whether they were conflicting, mitigating or intensifying to the legal responsibility involved or preventive to meting out a punishment thereof. Chapter Five Reasons for Rejecting the Characteristic of a Crime Section One Reasons of Permitted Lawfulness Article (26): An act is not deemed to be a crime if it entails the use of a right ordained by law, or the performance of a duty imposed by law or the use of an authority delegated by law therein. Legitimate Self-Defense Article (27): Legitimate Self-defense arises when a person faces an immediate danger from a crime to himself/herself,5 his/her honor or his/her property, or the lives, honor and property of others without resorting to the public authorities to evade this danger in due time. Accordingly the defending person may repel such danger by any appropriate means or any appropriate method. Limitations of Self-Defense 5 Gender Pronoun added by translator.