18 U.S.C. § 112 : US Code - Section 112: Protection of foreign officials, official guests, and internationally protected persons

Search 18 U.S.C. § 112 : US Code - Section 112: Protection of foreign officials, official guests, and internationally protected persons

(a) Whoever assaults, strikes, wounds, imprisons, or offers
violence to a foreign official, official guest, or internationally
protected person or makes any other violent attack upon the person
or liberty of such person, or, if likely to endanger his person or
liberty, makes a violent attack upon his official premises, private
accommodation, or means of transport or attempts to commit any of
the foregoing shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not
more than three years, or both. Whoever in the commission of any
such act uses a deadly or dangerous weapon, or inflicts bodily
injury, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than
ten years, or both.
(b) Whoever willfully -
(1) intimidates, coerces, threatens, or harasses a foreign
official or an official guest or obstructs a foreign official in
the performance of his duties;
(2) attempts to intimidate, coerce, threaten, or harass a
foreign official or an official guest or obstruct a foreign
official in the performance of his duties; or
(3) within the United States and within one hundred feet of any
building or premises in whole or in part owned, used, or occupied
for official business or for diplomatic, consular, or residential
purposes by -
(A) a foreign government, including such use as a mission to
an international organization;
(B) an international organization;
(C) a foreign official; or
(D) an official guest;
congregates with two or more other persons with intent to violate
any other provision of this section;
shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than six
months, or both.
(c) For the purpose of this section "foreign government",
"foreign official", "internationally protected person",
"international organization", "national of the United States", and
"official guest" shall have the same meanings as those provided in
section 1116(b) of this title.
(d) Nothing contained in this section shall be construed or
applied so as to abridge the exercise of rights guaranteed under
the first amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
(e) If the victim of an offense under subsection (a) is an
internationally protected person outside the United States, the
United States may exercise jurisdiction over the offense if (1) the
victim is a representative, officer, employee, or agent of the
United States, (2) an offender is a national of the United States,
or (3) an offender is afterwards found in the United States. As
used in this subsection, the United States includes all areas under
the jurisdiction of the United States including any of the places
within the provisions of sections 5 and 7 of this title and section
46501(2) of title 49.
(f) In the course of enforcement of subsection (a) and any other
sections prohibiting a conspiracy or attempt to violate subsection
(a), the Attorney General may request assistance from any Federal,
State, or local agency, including the Army, Navy, and Air Force,
any statute, rule, or regulation to the contrary, notwithstanding.