A/HRC/19/60/Add.1 Objection to include the Ombudsperson, the President of the Permanent Commission on Human Rights of the Senate, the President of the Permanent Commission on Human Rights of the Congress, a representative of the Ministry of Defence and a representative of the objectors who will be chosen through a ballot of those who have presented their objection in the past five years. Article 20 provides that those who do not duly comply with alternative service will still be subject to article 129 of the Constitution establishing compulsory military service. Pursuant to article 21, those who declared their objection before Law No. 4.013 was promulgated may choose between providing alternative service or paying a fine equal to the salary of five days of work. Article 23 states that, in the event of national defence or situation of international armed conflict, alternative service will necessarily comprise activities of civil defence. 13. The Penal Code also includes several articles that refer to religious issues. For example, article 158 of the Penal Code provides that anyone who damages totally or partially an object of religious significance belonging to a religious society recognized by the State or an object intended for the exercise of religious worship is punishable by up to three years of imprisonment or a fine. Article 162 of the Penal Code considers a theft to be aggravated, with possible imprisonment of up to 10 years, when the culprit steals from the interior of a church or any other closed building dedicated to religious worship any object intended for the exercise of worship or religious adoration. Furthermore, article 233 of the Code provides that anyone who, in a manner likely to upset the harmony of relations among people, insults another person on account of his or her beliefs at a public meeting or through publications is punishable by imprisonment for a maximum term of three years or by a fine. 14. The 2006 National Police Regulation of Ceremonies and Protocol also refers to religious ceremonies. Pursuant to article 97 of the Regulation, all solemn acts arranged with the participation of members of the National Police, according to the ritual of the Catholic Church, are interpreted as religious ceremony. Article 99 provides that, in ceremonies where there is no need to stand to attention, persons are required to remain with bare heads and to follow the Catholic ritual. 15. Article 91 of the Civil Code states that churches and religious denominations are legal persons. For official registration with the Vice-Ministry of Worship, religious communities are required to submit, on an annual basis, a form in which they request the processing of registration for entities; attached to the form, a note requesting an official annual certificate of documentation for entities; details of the persons officially in charge of the congregation (name and last name, identity document number, position in the congregation with indication of the dates of tenure); a completed annual questionnaire for entities; a form with complete personal data of those officially in charge of the congregation; a completed form for the registration of authorized signatures of those officially in charge of the congregation; a copy of the announcement of the celebration of the General Assembly of the entity officially recognized by public notary; a copy of the publication in a main newspaper of the celebration of the General Assembly recognized by public notary; a copy of the minutes of the General Assembly of the entity officially recognized by public notary; a copy of the legal statutes of the entity officially recognized by public notary; and a copy of the documents that establish the legal personality of the entity officially recognized by public notary.2 2 6 See www.mec.gov.py/vmc/entradas/206242 (in Spanish).

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