''Part II SPECIFIC PART, Chapter 4, Offences against Civil Rights and Freedoms, Article 212 Torture''

Any person committing an intentional act, whether or not they are performing their official duties, inflicting severe pain or suffering upon another, whether physical or mental, for the purpose of obtaining from him/her or from a third person information or a confession, to punish the person or a third person for acts they committed or are suspected of having committed, intimidating or coercing the person or a third person, will be sentenced to imprisonment for a term ranging from five years to ten years and a fine shall be imposed ranging from 5,000,000 kip to 20,000,000 kip.

When the offence causes disability, handicap or death of the victim, the offender shall be sentenced to imprisonment for a term ranging from ten years to fifteen years and a fine shall be imposed ranging from 15,000,000 kip to 50,000,000 kip.

When the offence results in the death of more than one victim, the offender shall be sentenced to imprisonment for a term ranging from fifteen years to twenty years and a fine shall be imposed ranging from 30,000,000 kip to 100,000,000 kip.

The suffering and physical harm resulting from lawfully imposed sentences or intentionally incurred from those punishments shall not be considered as torture.