(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.