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Crimes against personal liberty and security, Revised Penal Code

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Title Nine – Crimes Against Personal Liberty and Security

Chapter One: Crimes Against Liberty

Section One. – Illegal Detention

⦁ Kidnapping and serious illegal detention

⦁ Slight illegal detention

⦁ Unlawful arrest

Section Two. – Kidnapping of minors

⦁ Kidnapping and failure to return a minor

⦁ Inducing a minor to abandon his home

Section Three. – Slavery and Servitude

⦁ Slavery

⦁ Exploitation of child labor

⦁ Services rendered under compulsion in payment of debt

Chapter Two: Crimes Against Security

Section One. – Abandonment of helpless persons and exploitation of minors.

⦁ Abandonment of person in danger and abandonment of one’s own victim

⦁ Abandonment of one’s own victim

⦁ Abandoning a minor

⦁ Abandonment of minor by person entrusted with his custody; indifference of parents

⦁ Exploitation of minors

Section Two. – Trespass to dwelling

⦁ Qualified trespass to dwelling

⦁ Other forms of trespass

Section Three. – Threats and Coercion

⦁ Grave threats

⦁ Light threats

⦁ Other light threats

⦁ Grave coercions

⦁ Light coercions

⦁ Any other coercions

⦁ Unjust Vexation

⦁ Other similar coercions

⦁ Formation, maintenance and prohibition of combination of capital or labor through violence or threats

Chapter Three: Discovery and Revelation of Secrets

⦁ Discovering secrets through seizure of correspondence

⦁ Revealing secrets with abuse of office

⦁ Revelation of industrial secrets

References

⦁ Title 9 – Crimes Against Personal Liberty, Book 2, Revised Penal Code

/Updated: January 18, 2023

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