(1) Whosoever, by force or threat of force, unlawfully coerces

1.  a legislative body of the Federation or a member state or one of its committees;

2.  the Federal Assembly or one of its committees; or

3.  the government or the constitutional court of the Federation or of a member state

not to exercise their functions or to exercise them in a particular manner shall be liable to imprisonment from one to ten years.

(2) In less serious cases the penalty shall be imprisonment from six months to five years.