'National penalties - aggression' in document 'Finland - Penal Code'

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RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

Chapter 12 - Treasonable offences

Section 2 – Incitement to war

If a person in Finland or a Finnish citizen outside of Finland, during an ongoing or imminent military crisis or international political crisis, for the purpose of causing Finland to be at war or the target of a military operation

(1) publicly exhorts a foreign state to carry out an act of aggression against Finland or Finland to carry out an act of aggression against a foreign state,
(2) publicly disseminates statements or other propaganda intended to turn the public opinion in favour of the carrying out of acts of aggression,
(3) systematically disseminates manifestly unfounded or misleading information on the Finnish defence or the military or security policy of Finland, or
(4) unlawfully commits a violent act against a foreign state or the representative, territory or property of a foreign state
so that the act evidently increases the danger of Finland being at war or the target of a military operation, that person shall be sentenced for incitement to war to imprisonment for at least one and at most ten years.