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Ethiopia
Practice Relating to Rule 67. Inviolability of Parlementaires
IV. National Legislation
Ethiopia’s Penal Code (1957) punishes “whosoever maltreats, threatens, insults or unjustifiably detains an enemy bearing a flag of truce, or an enemy negotiator, or any person accompanying him”. 
Ethiopia, Penal Code, 1957, Article 295.
Ethiopia’s Criminal Code (2004) states:
Article 283.- Hostile Acts against the Bearer of a Flag of Truce.
Whoever maltreats, threatens, insults or unjustifiably detains an enemy bearing a flag of truce, or an enemy negotiator, or any person accompanying him,
is punishable with simple imprisonment. 
Ethiopia, Criminal Code, 2004, Article 283.
The Criminal Code of 2004 repealed Ethiopia’s Penal Code of 1957.