(1) A person who incites a foreign state or social group abroad to war or another hostile action against the Republic, shall be punished by imprisonment for five to fifteen years. (2) The same punishment shall be imposed on persons, who commit an act for the purpose of provoking war or other hostile action against the Republic. Article 99 (1) (Supplemented, SG No. 50/1995, amended, SG No. 153/1998) A person who deprives of life a representative of a foreign state for the purpose of provoking war or international complications against the Republic, shall be punished by imprisonment for ten to twenty years, by life imprisonment or by life imprisonment without a chance of commuting. (2) For severe bodily injury on such a person for the same purpose, the punishment shall be imprisonment for five to fifteen years. Article 100 (1) (Supplemented, SG No. 50/1995, amended, SG No. 153/1998) A Bulgarian citizen who at a time of declared or started war joins of his own free will the ranks of the enemy army or armed groups, or takes part in hostile actions against the Republic, or defects to the side of the enemy in any form, shall be punished by imprisonment for ten to twenty years, by life imprisonment or by life imprisonment without a chance of commuting. (2) The same punishment shall also be imposed on a Bulgarian citizen who assists in any way a foreign state or social group abroad in the carrying out military or other hostile activities against the Republic. Article 101 (1) A Bulgarian citizen who leaves the country or refuses to return to the country for the purpose of placing himself in service of a foreign state or a foreign organisation, in order to serve it to the detriment of the Republic, shall be punished by imprisonment for three to ten years. (2) If the act has been committed by a serviceman, the punishment shall be imprisonment for five to fifteen years. Article 102 (1) A person who, for the purpose of decreasing the defence capacity of the Republic, provokes rebellion or insubordination in the Bulgarian army, or desertion therefrom, or for the same purpose disorganises its preparedness or supplies, shall be punished by imprisonment for five to fifteen years. (2) (Supplemented, SG No. 50/1995, amended, SG No. 153/1998) If serious consequences have occurred in result of such act, or if it has been committed in wartime, the punishment shall be imprisonment for ten to twenty years, life imprisonment or life imprisonment without a chance of commuting. Article 103 (Supplemented, SG No. 75/2006) A person who, in carrying out his duties of state office or commission to a foreign government or international organisation, conducts them deliberately to the detriment of the Republic, shall be punished by imprisonment for ten to fifteen years, as well as by deprivation of rights under Article 37, Paragraph 1, Items 6 and 9.

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