Increasing the Penalty for Kidnapping and Deprivation of Liberty

Type

Decree-Law

Number

27

Date of the text

05/03/1959

Official Gazette

published in 1959

Status today

Repealed as of 27/08/2026

Articles

27

What it provides

This decree tightens penalties for anyone who deprives another person of liberty through kidnapping or any other means. It reduces the sentence if the victim is freed within twenty-four hours, and raises it to life hard labour in aggravated cases such as torture or detention beyond a month.

What has changed this text

• Repealed by Decree-Law No. 112/1983 of 16/09/1983

The full text

This act was published in the Lebanese Official Gazette in 1959. Its full text and the original scan are in the Gherbal National Gazette archive.