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Practice question: Title I – Crimes Against National Security and the Law of Nations

Multiple Choice Hard

Practice question

A prosecutor invokes Article120 solely because a person sent an ordinary letter to a foreign country during peacetime. No war, enemy status or other penal basis exists. What indispensable setting is missing?
  1. Only a larger envelope
  2. The wartime hostile-country or occupied-territory setting
  3. Only the use of blue ink
  4. Only the sender’s employer
  5. Nothing, because all foreign correspondence is prohibited

Legal references

  • Revised Penal Code, Articles118,120-121,126,128,130-132,143-144, as applicable; no obsolete fine applied: https://lawphil.net/statutes/acts/act1930/act_3815_1930.html

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