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Each Member State of the African Union shall take the legislative measures required to
set up as a penal offense the fact of possessing a picture or a representation of infant
pornography in a computer system or in whatsoever means for holding computerized
data.
Article III – 17:
Each Member State of the African Union shall take the legislative measures required to
set up as a penal offense the fact of facilitating access to pictures, documents, sounds
or representation of pornography of a minor.
Article III – 18:
Each Member State of the African Union shall take the legislative measures required to
set up as a penal offense the offenses defined in this Convention where they have been
committed in an organized group, and liable to the maximum punishment prescribed for
such offense.
Article III – 19:
Each Member State of the African Union shall take the legislative measures required to
set up as a penal offense the fact of creating, downloading, disseminating or circulating
in whatsoever form, written matters, messages, photographs, drawings or any other
presentation of ideas or theories of racist or xenophobic nature using an a computer
system.
Article III – 20:
Each Member State of the African Union shall take the legislative measures required to
set up as a penal offense an attack perpetrated through a computer system, with the
intention of committing a criminal offense against any person for reasons of his/her
membership of a group characterized by race, color, ancestry, national or ethnic origin
or religion where such membership serves as a pretext for any of these offenses, or a
against a group of persons distinguishable by any of these characteristics.
Article III – 21:
Each Member State of the African Union shall take the legislative measures required to
set up as a penal offense an abuse committed by means of a computer system against
any person for reasons of his/her membership of a group characterized by race, color,
ancestry, national or ethnic origin or religion where such membership serves as a
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