56 CAP. 9.] CRIMINAL CODE (d) (e) (f) (g) (h) death; if the detention or confinement is continued by the offender notwithstanding his knowledge that a writ or warrant for the release or delivery of the person detained or confined has been issued by the competent authority; if the crime is committed with the object of extorting money or effects, or of compelling any other person to agree to any transfer of property belonging to such person; if the crime is committed for the purpose of forcing another person to do or to omit an act, which, if voluntarily done or omitted, would be a crime; if the crime is committed as a means of compelling a person to do an act or to submit to treatment injurious to the modesty of that person’s sex; if the crime is committed on the person of the father, mother or on any person mentioned in article 202(h). (2) Where a person who commits the crime referred to in the last preceding article threatens to kill, to injure or to continue to detain or confine the person arrested, detained or confined, with the object of compelling a state, an international governmental organisation or person to do or to abstain from doing an act he shall be liable to the punishment of imprisonment for life. Punishment for illegal arrest, etc., accompanied with bodily harm. Amended by: XLIX. 1981.4. 88. Where the bodily harm referred to in paragraph (c) of the last preceding article is liable to a punishment higher than the punishment of imprisonment for a term of two years, or is committed or accompanied with any kind of torture, the punishment shall be imprisonment for a term from four to six years. Extenuating circumstance. 89. The punishment for the illegal arrest, detention or confinement of a person, without the concurrence of any of the circumstances mentioned in article 87(b), (c), (d), (e), (f) and (g), and in the last preceding article, shall be imprisonment for a term from seven months to one year, where the offender, before the commencement of any proceedings at law, restores to liberty the person arrested, detained or confined, within twenty-four hours after the arrest, detention or confinement, provided that during this interval the offender has not attained the object for which such person has been arrested, detained or confined. Unlawful removal of persons to a foreign country or unlawful confinement therein. Amended by: XXVII. 1975.13. 90. Whosoever unlawfully and forcibly removes any person to any other country, or wrongfully detains, arrests or confines any citizen of Malta in any other country, shall, on conviction, be liable to the punishment laid down in article 87.