(1) Whosoever as a public official involved in

1.  a criminal proceeding, a proceeding for the purpose of detention by a public authority;

2.  a proceeding to impose a summary fine; or

3.  a disciplinary proceeding, disciplinary court or professional disciplinary court proceeding

physically abuses another, otherwise uses force against him, threatens him with force or abuses him mentally in order to force him to testify to or declare something in the proceeding or to fail to do so 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.