CPF · Article 131

Article 131 Federal Criminal Code

BOOK TWO · TITLE ONE. Crimes against the security of the Nation · CHAPTER IV. Mutiny

Current text · last reform published in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF) on 13 March 2026

The penalty of six months to seven years of prison and a fine of up to five thousand pesos shall be applied to those who, in order to make use of a right or pretexting its exercise or to avoid compliance with a law, gather tumultuously and disturb the public order with the use of violence against persons or against things, or threaten the authority in order to intimidate it or oblige it to take some determination.

To those who direct, organize, incite, compel or economically sponsor others to commit the crime of riot, the penalty of two to ten years of prison and a fine of up to fifteen thousand pesos shall be applied.

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Federal Criminal Code, Article 131. https://articuladomx.com/en/federal-criminal-code/article-131/

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Corpus 2026.10.08