Article 162

(1) A person who propagates or abets to racial or national hostility or hatred or to racial discrimination shall be punished by deprivation of liberty for up to three years and by public censure.

(2) A person who uses violence against another or damages his/her property because of his/her nationality, race, religion or because of his/her political convictions, shall be punished by deprivation of liberty for up to three years and by public censure.

(3) A person who forms or leads an organization or group which has set itself the objective of committing acts under the preceding paragraphs, shall be punished by deprivation of liberty for one to six years and by public censure.

(4) A person who is a member of such an organization or group shall be punished by deprivation of liberty for up to three years and by public censure.

(5) For the crimes under the preceding paragraphs the court may also rule compulsory domicile.

Article 163

(1) The persons who take part in a crowd rallied to attack groups of the population, individual citizens or their property in connection with their national or racial affiliation, shall be punished:

(2) If the crowd or some of the participants are armed, the punishment shall be:

(3) If an assault has been made which has resulted in severe bodily injury or death, the abettors and leaders shall be punished by deprivation of liberty for three to fifteen years, and all the others - by deprivation of liberty for up to five years, if they are not liable to more severe punishment.

Article 164

A person who propagates hatred on religious basis by speech, through the press, action or in another way, shall be punished by deprivation of liberty for up to three years or by corrective labour.

Article 165

(1) A person who, by force or threat hinders the citizens from freely practicing their faith or from performing their religious rituals and services, which do not violate the laws of the country, the public order and morals, shall be punished by deprivation of liberty for up to one year.

(2) The same punishment shall also be imposed upon a person who in the same way compels another to take part in religious rituals and services.

(3) For the acts under Article 163, committed against groups of the population, individual citizens or their property, in connection with their religious affiliation, the punishment provided therein shall be applied.

Article 166

A person who forms a political organization on religious basis or who by speech, through the press, action or in another way, uses the church or religion for propaganda against the rule of the people or its undertakings, shall be punished by deprivation of liberty for up to three years, if he/she is not subject to more severe punishment, and the court may also rule compulsory domicile.

Article 172

(1) A person who intentionally impedes another to take a job, or compels him/her to leave a job because of his/her nationality, race, religion, social origin, membership in a political party, organization, movement or coalition with political objective, or because of his/her next-of-kin political convictions, shall be punished by deprivation of liberty for up to three years or by a fine of up to thirty thousand Bulgarian leva.

Source: Unofficial translation