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Law No. 11 of 2004 Issuing the Penal Code

Law Summary Record Type: LawNumber: 11Date: 10/05/2004 Corresponding to 21/03/1425 HijriNumber of Articles: 401Status: In force
Official Gazette :Issue: 7Offcial Journal Issue Publication Date: 30/05/2004 Corresponding to 11/04/1425 HijriPage from: 53
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Crimes Related to Religions and the Violability of the Dead

  • 256 Article

    Whoever commits the following acts shall be punished with imprisonment for a term not exceeding seven years:
    1- Insulting Allah through writing, drawing, gesturing or in any other way or through any other means.
    2- Offending, misinterpreting or violating the Holy Quran.
    3- Offending the Islamic religion or any of its rites and dictates.
    4- Cursing any of the divine religions according to the regulations of Islamic law.
    5- Insulting any of the prophets through writing, drawing, gesturing or in any other way or through any other means.
    6- Sabotaging, breaking, damaging or violating sites or their contents if they are made to perform religious rites for one of the divine religions according to the regulations of Islamic law.

  • 257 Article

    Whoever establishes, organizes or runs an assembly, association, organization or a branch aimed at opposing or challenging the basics and tenets of Islam, or calls upon, or favors or promotes another religion; cult or concept shall be punished with imprisonment for a term not exceeding ten years.

  • 258 Article

    Any person who joins, participates or contributes in any way to one of the groups mentioned in the preceding Article shall be liable to a prison term up to five years.

  • 259 Article

    Whoever opposes or doubts any of the basics or tenets of Islam, or calls upon, or favors or promotes another religion, cult or concept shall be punished with imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years.

  • 260 Article

    Whoever holds a meeting for the purpose of opposing or challenging the basics or tenets of Islam or promoting another religion shall be punished with imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years.
     
    The same penalty shall be imposed on any person who participates in the preparation of the meeting or joins it while being aware of its purpose.

  • 261 Article

    Whoever possesses documents, printed publications or recorded tapes or any other materials favoring or promoting the stipulations of Articles 256 and 259 with the intention of distributing them or revealing them to others, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years and/or a fine not exceeding ten thousand Qatari Riyals (QR 10.000).
     
    The same penalty shall be imposed on any person who possesses any means of printing, recording or diffusing, or who prints, records or diffuses calls, anthems, or propaganda to a cult, assembly, association or organization with the knowledge that the aim of such actions relate to one of the purposes stipulated in the previous Paragraph.

  • 262 Article

    Whoever receives money directly or indirectly from a person or an association inside or outside the State for the purpose of committing one of the actions stipulated in Article 260 shall be punished with imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years and a fine not exceeding ten thousand Qatari Riyals (QR 10.000).

  • 263 Article

    Whoever produces, sells, exposes for sale or circulation, or possesses products, merchandise, prints or tapes, including drawings, slogans, words, symbols, signals or anything else that may offend the Islamic religion or other divine religions according to the dictates of Islamic law, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year and a fine not exceeding one thousand Qatari Riyals (QR 1.000).
     
    The same penalty shall be imposed on any person who uses disks, computer programs or magnetized tapes to offend Islam or other divine religions according to the dictates of Islamic law.

  • 264 Article

    Any of the perpetrators who report one of the offences under the provisions of the preceding Articles of this Chapter to the competent authorities before being exposed shall be exempted from the penalty. If the notification comes after exposure of the offence, the court has the right to exempt the perpetrator from the penalty whenever the notification leads to other arrests.

  • 265 Article

    In addition to the penalties stipulated in the preceding Articles, all parties mentioned in Article 257 of the present Law are to be disbanded and closed by a court order.
     
    They will only be allowed to re-open legally after the prior approval from the Office of the Attorney General.
     
    In all cases mentioned in the preceding Articles, the court judgment shall include the confiscation of money and materials used or made to be used in committing the offence or which was present in the places intended for the meeting of the parties as stipulated in Article 257 of the present Law.

  • 266 Article

    Whoever infringes or violates the sanctity and sacredness of the dead or the remains of a corpse, or the place destined for burying the dead, preserving their remains or preparing the funeral, or annoying the people gathered to perform funeral ceremonies shall be punished with imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year and/or a fine not exceeding five thousand Qatari Riyals (QR 5.000).

  • 267 Article

    Whoever publicly eats or drinks during a day of Ramadan shall be punished with imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months and/or a fine not exceeding three thousand Qatari Riyals (QR 3.000).

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