PENAL CODE of the Democratic Republic of Timor Leste f) Research and development of biological or chemical weapons. 2. Any person who promotes or establishes a terrorist group, organization or association, joins, participates in or supports the same shall be punishable with 12 to 25 years imprisonment. 3. Any person who leads or directs a terrorist group, organization or association shall be punishable with 15 to 30 years imprisonment. 4. Whenever a terrorist group, organization or association, or the persons referred to in subarticles 131.2 and 131.3 possess any of the means listed in subarticle 131.1(d) above, the minimum and maximum limits of the penalty shall be increased by onethird. 5. The minimum and maximum limits of the penalty for preparatory acts to the establishment of a terrorist group, organization or association shall be reduced by one half. 6. The referred penalties may be extraordinarily mitigated, or punishment may not take place, if the perpetrator voluntarily abandons said activities, prevents or strives to prevent the dangers associated to it or the continuation of terrorist groups, organizations or associations, or informs the authorities about their existence so that the latter may prevent the commission of crimes. Article 132. Terrorism 1. Any person who commits any of the crimes provided for in subarticles 131.1(a) to (c) and (e), or any other crime by employing the means referred to in subarticles 131.1(d) or (f) with the intent referred therein, shall be punishable with 12 to 25 years imprisonment, or the penalty corresponding to the crime committed, with maximum and minimum limits thereof increased by one third, if said penalty is equal or longer. 2. The penalty may be extraordinarily mitigated, or punishment may not take place if the perpetrator voluntarily abandons said activities, removes or reduces considerably the dangers associated to it, prevents the outcome that the law aims to prevent, or actually assists in the gathering of decisive evidence for the identification and arrest of other elements responsible for the act. Article 133. Funding of terrorism Any person who, by whatever means, directly or indirectly and with intent, supplies, collects or holds funds or assets of any type, as well as products or rights that may be converted into funds and attempts to do so, with a view to be used or knowing that they may be used, totally or partially, in the planning, preparation or commission of the acts referred to in subarticle 131.1, or commits such acts with the intent referred to in subarticle 132.1, shall be punishable with 12 to 25 years imprisonment. Article 134. Incitement to war 1. Any person who, by whatever means, publicly and repeatedly, incites hatred against a race, people or nation, with the intention to provoke war or prevent peaceful fellowship among different races, peoples or nations, is punishable with 2 to 8 years imprisonment. 2. Any person who induces or enlists Timorese or foreign nationals to, in the service of a foreign group or power, wage war against a State or overthrow the legitimate Government of another State through violent means, is punishable with 5 to 15 years imprisonment. 39

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