A penalty of temporary imprisonment shall be imposed on anyone who unlawfully, personally or through an intermediary, and through any means, kidnaps, seizes, detains or deprives another person of his liberty. The penalty shall be life imprisonment in the following cases: 1. If the act is committed with the assumption of public capacity or with the pretension to perform or to be entrusted with a public service, or to associated with a false capacity. 2. If the act is fraudulently committed or with the use of force or threat to kill or seriously harm, or by means of bodily or psychological torture. 3. If the act is committed by two or more persons or by a person carrying weapons. 4. If the period of the kidnapping, seizure, detention or deprivation of liberty exceeds one month. 5. If the victim is a female, juvenile, insane, imbecile or disabled. 6. If the act is committed with the intention to realize profit, to take revenge, to rape the victim or violate his honour, to injure him or to induce him to commit a crime. 7. If the act is committed against a public servant during or due to the performance of his job. If said act caused the death of the victim, the penalty shall be death. The penalty prescribed for the principal perpetrator on anyone who acts as intermediary in the commission of any of the crimes referred to in this Article as well as anyone who knowingly hides a kidnapped person.
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