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Whoever commits [any of] the following criminal acts:

the exercise of forcible violence or the commission of any act which causes harm to the life or severe harm to the body or liberty of any person;

the commission of any act which causes severe damage to a public transportation system, telecommunication system, or infrastructure of public interest;

the commission of any act which causes damage to property of any state or of any person or to the environment, thereby resulting or likely to result in substantial economic damage;

commits an offence of terrorism and shall be punished with death, life imprisonment, or imprisonment from three years to twenty years and a fine from sixty thousand baht to one million baht, if such act is committed for the purpose of threatening or forcing the Thai Government, a foreign government, or an international organisation into doing or abstaining from any act [in a manner] which would result in severe damage, or for [the purpose of] creating turbulence by causing fear amongst the public.

An act done in a demonstration, assembly, protest, debate, or movement in order to demand assistance from the State or to enable access to fairness, which is the exercise of a liberty under the Constitution, does not constitute an offence of terrorism.

Whoever—

threatens to commit terrorism when there are circumstances for which it should be believed that he would actually commit the threatened act; or

accumulates troops or weapons, procures or collects property, provides or receives terrorist training, makes any other preparation, or conspires with another person in order to commit terrorism, or commits any offence as part of a plot for terrorism, or incites the public to take part in terrorism, or, knowing that anyone is to commit terrorism, commits any act to help conceal it;

shall be punished with imprisonment from two years to ten years and a fine from forty thousand baht to two hundred thousand baht.

Whoever aids in the commission of the offence under section 135/1 or section 135/2 shall be punished in the same manner as the principal in such offence.