An Act to enable effect to be given in Botswana to certain international conventions made at Geneva on the 12th of August, 1949, and for purposes connected therewith.
Punishment of Offenders Against Conventions
3. (1) Any person, whatever his nationality, who, whether in or outside Botswana,commits, or aids, abets or procures the commission by any other person of, any such grave breach of any of the
scheduled conventions as is referred to in the following articles respectively of those conventions, that is to say-
(ii) in the case of any other such grave breach as aforesaid, shall be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 14 years.
PENAL CODE OF BOTSWANA
DIVISION I - OFFENCES AGAINST PUBLIC ORDER
Treason and other Offences against the State's Authority
38. Promoting war or warlike undertaking
Any person who, without lawful authority, carries on, or makes preparation for carrying on, or aids in or advises the carrying on of, or preparation for, any war or warlike undertaking with, for, by, or against any person or group of persons within Botswana, is guilty of an offence and is liable to imprisonment for not less than 15 years nor more than 25 years.
PENAL CODE OF BOTSWANA
PART II - OFFENCES AGAINST THE ADMINISTRATION OF LAWFUL AUTHORITY
Offences relating to the Administration of Justice (ss 111-123)
113. Punishment of perjury and subornation
Any person who commits perjury or suborns perjury is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding seven years.
PENAL CODE OF BOTSWANA
PART II- Crimes
DIVISION II - OFFENCES AGAINST THE ADMINISTRATION OF LAWFUL AUTHORITY
Offences relating to the Administration of Justice (ss 111-123)
116. Fabricating evidence
Any person who with intent to mislead any tribunal in any judicial proceeding-
(a) fabricates evidence by any means other than perjury or subornation of perjury; or
(b) knowingly makes use of such fabricated evidence, is guilty of an offence and is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding seven years.
1. Subject to article 110, the Court may impose one of the following penalties on a person convicted of a crime referred to in article 5 of this Statute:
(a) Imprisonment for a specified number of years, which may not exceed a maximum of 30 years; or
(b) A term of life imprisonment when justified by the extreme gravity of the crime and the individual circumstances of the convicted person.
2. In addition to imprisonment, the Court may order:
(a) A fine under the criteria provided for in the Rules of Procedure and Evidence;
(b) A forfeiture of proceeds, property and assets derived directly or indirectly from that crime, without prejudice to the rights of bona fide third parties.