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Due obedience (also called hierarchical obedience, compliance with unlawful commands or compliance with unlawful orders), in criminal law, is a situation that exempts from criminal responsibility for crimes committed in compliance with an order issued by a hierarchical superior; The subordinate, the material author of the facts, benefits from this defense, leaving the criminal sanction of his superior subsisting.

It is usually related to military activity, due to the subordination that members of a military hierarchy must render to their superiors in the actions that pertain to the service provided. However, you can apply for other public law activities, such as Administration. In Colombia the figure does not operate, when it comes to the crimes of genocide, forced disappearance and torture, by mandate of numeral 4 of article 32 of the Penal Code.