CHAPTER I. PROTECTION OF FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS

5. Protection from inhuman treatment

1. No person shall be subjected to torture or to inhuman or degrading punishment or other treatment.

BOOK I
General Provisions

PART II
Rules as to Criminal Responsibility

TITLE II
General Explanations

19. Provisions relating to the meaning and use of threats

(1) In this Code, unless the context otherwise requires, “threat” means—

(a) any threat of criminal force or harm; or

(b) any threat of criminal mischief to property; or

(c) any threat of libel or of slander; or

(d) any threat that a person shall be prosecuted on a charge of having committed any offence whether the alleged offence is punishable under this Code or under any other law, and whether it has or has not been committed.

(2) Any expression in this Code referring to a threat shall also be deemed to include any offer to abstain from doing, or to procure any other person to abstain from doing, anything the threat of which is a threat of any of the kinds in this section before mentioned.

(3) It is immaterial whether a threat be that the matter thereof shall be executed by the person using the threat, or against or in relation to the person to whom the threat is used, or by, or against, or in relation to any other person.

(4) It is immaterial whether a threat or offer be conveyed to any person by words, or by writing, or in any other manner, and whether it be conveyed directly, or through any other person, or in any other manner.