Law / Central African Republic
Code Pénal Centrafricain, article 111 (pornographie impliquant des enfants)
Code Pénal Centrafricain, Loi n° 10.001 du 6 janvier 2010, art. 111
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In force.
An AI prohibited practices rule binding public and private bodies.
As of 7 September 2026.
What it requires
- Do not generate, produce, or distribute a pornographic representation of a child, whether the depiction is of a real child or is drawn, virtual, or computer-generated; whether the article reaches a purely synthetic depiction has not been tested in a reported Central African decision.
If you get it wrong
Criminal exposureYes
Criminal exposure note
Two to five years' imprisonment and a fine of FCFA 100,002 to 2,000,000 (the low figure recurs identically across many unrelated Penal Code articles and may be a printing or scanning artifact for FCFA 100,000), doubled on repeat conduct (art. 111).
Penalty structure
Fine only; the same article also carries two to five years' imprisonment instead of or in addition to the fine, doubled on repeat conduct. The printed low end of the fine range (100,002) recurs identically across many unrelated Penal Code articles and may be a scanning artifact for 100,000.
- Rule
- Fixed only
- As of
- 7 September 2026
- Currency
- XAF
- Fixed cap
- 2,000,000
Who enforces it
Settledness
- As of
- 7 September 2026
- Open questions
- Does 'actes pornographiques à l'égard des enfants' in article 111 reach a virtual, drawn, or purely computer-generated depiction of a child, or does it require an actual child as the depicted subject?
What this law does
Drafted with AI from the cited sources under the direction of UnGovr staff. UnGovr holds editorial responsibility for this page.
Article 111 opens by defining pornography as a complaisant representation of subjects in a literary, artistic, or cinematographic work that offends against good morals, and then makes it an offence for anyone to be guilty of pornographic acts with respect to children, punishable by two to five years' imprisonment and a fine, doubled on repeat conduct.
Because the article defines the underlying concept of pornography by reference to a representation in a work rather than by reference to conduct against a real child, its wording does not on its face exclude a virtual, drawn, or computer-generated depiction of a child from the offence, so a service generating that kind of synthetic content plausibly falls within the ban; no Central African appellate decision construing the point has been located, so this is a reading of the text rather than a settled interpretation.
The Code has no separate provision addressing AI-generated content, algorithmic transparency, or synthetic-media labelling.
When LexLint raises it
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