'Corruptly influencing a witness, obstructing or interfering with the attendance or testimony of a witness, retaliating against a witness for giving testimony or destroying, tampering with or interfering with the collection of evidence' in document 'Uganda - Penal Code'

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RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

CHAPTER X—OFFENCES RELATING TO THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE.

101. Deceiving witnesses.

Any person who practises any fraud or deceit or knowingly makes or exhibits any false statement, representation, token or writing, to any person called or to be called as a witness in any judicial proceeding, with intent to affect the testimony of such person as a witness, commits a misdemeanour.

102. Destroying evidence.

or may be required in evidence in a judicial proceeding, removes or destroys it or renders it illegible or undecipherable or incapable of identification, with intent thereby to prevent it from being used in evidence, commits an offence and is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding seven years.

103. Conspiracy to defeat justice and interference with witnesses.

Any person who—

(a) conspires with any other person to accuse any person falsely of any crime or to do anything to obstruct, prevent, pervert or defeat the course of justice;
(b) in order to obstruct the due course of justice, dissuades, hinders or prevents any person lawfully bound to appear and give evidence as a witness from so appearing and giving evidence, or endeavours to do so; or
(c) obstructs or in any way interferes with or knowingly prevents the execution of any legal process, civil or criminal,

commits an offence and is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years.

104. Compounding felonies.

Any person who asks, receives or obtains, or agrees or attempts to receive or obtain, any property or benefit of any kind for himself or herself or any other person upon any agreement or understanding that he or she will compound or conceal a felony, or will abstain from, discontinue or delay a prosecution for a felony, or will withhold any evidence thereof, commits a misdemeanour.

105. Compounding penal actions.

Any person who, having brought or under pretence of bringing, an action against another person upon a penal written law in order to obtain from him or her a penalty for any offence committed or alleged to have been committed by him or her, compounds the action without the order or consent of the court in which the action is brought, or is to be brought, commits a misdemeanour.

CHAPTER X—OFFENCES RELATING TO THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE.

107. Offences relating to judicial proceedings.

(1) Any person who—

(f) attempts wrongfully to interfere with or influence a witness in a judicial proceeding, either before or after he or she has given evidence, in connection with such evidence;

RELEVANT ROME STATUTE PROVISIONS

Article 70
Offences against the administration of justice
1. The Court shall have jurisdiction over the following offences against its administration of justice when committed intentionally:
(c) Corruptly influencing a witness, obstructing or interfering with the attendance or testimony of a witness, retaliating against a witness for giving testimony or destroying, tampering with or interfering with the collection of evidence