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Clearly illegal detention—

shall be punishable by corrective labor for a period not yo exceed one year, or by removal from position.

Article 179. Eliciting testimony by coercion

The forced eliciting of testimony by means of threats or other illegal acts on the part of a person conducting a police inquiry or preliminary investigation—

shall be punishable by deprivation of freedom for a period not to exceed three years.

The same acts, when accompanied by violence or contumely directed against the person of the subject being interrogated—

shall be punishable by deprivation of freedom for a period of from three to ten years.

Article 180. Deliberately false denunciation

Deliberately false denunciation for the commission of a crime—

shall be punishable by deprivation of freedom for a period not to exceed two years, or by corrective labor for a period nob to exceed one year.

The same acts, when accompanied by charges of having committed a especially dangerous crime against the state, or other serious crime, or by the fabrication of evidence for the charges, or when committed for venal purposes—

shall be punishable by deprivation of freedom for a period of from two to seven years.

Article 181. Deliberately false testimony

Deliberately false testimony given by a witness, or a deliberately false conclusion given by an expert, or a deliberately false translation made by an interpreter in court, or in the course of the police inquiry or preliminary investigation—

shall be punishable by deprivation of freedom for a period not to exceed one year, or by corrective labor for the same period.

The same acts, when accompanied by changes of having committed an especially dangerous crime against the state ,or other serious crime or by the fabrication of evidence for the charges, or when committed for venal purposes—

shall be punishable by deprivation of freedom for a period of from two to seven years.