Penal Code, pornographic and manipulated image or representation offenses via an information system
Code pénal Loi n° 20-038/AU du 29 décembre 2020, promulguée par Décret n° 21-018/PR du 16 février 2021, Chapitre 4 (De la cybercriminalité), Section 2, arts. 462-465
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In force since 16 February 2021.
An AI prohibited practices rule binding public and private bodies.
As of 7 September 2026.
What it requires
- Do not produce, record, offer, distribute, or publish, through an information system, an image or representation of a pornographic, erotic, or child-pornographic character, whether or not the representation depicts a real person.
- Do not produce, distribute, or make available a counterfeited or manipulated image, video, or representation that harms a person's dignity, through an information system.
- Do not knowingly possess an image or representation of a child-pornographic, erotic character stored on an information system or a data-storage medium.
If you get it wrong
Criminal exposureYes
Criminal exposure note
Article 462 punishes producing, offering, or distributing a pornographic or morally offensive image or representation via an information system with one to five years' imprisonment and a fine of 7,000,000 to 10,000,000 Comorian francs (two to seven years and 5,000,000 to 7,000,000 francs for a counterfeited or manipulated image harming a person's dignity); article 463 punishes procuring, importing, or exporting a child-pornographic image or representation with two to five years and 5,000,000 to 10,000,000 francs; article 464 punishes intentional possession of the same with one to three years and 2,000 to 4,000,000 francs.
Penalty structure
The range spans four separate offenses (articles 462-464) with different tiers; the lowest minimum (article 464, possession) and the highest cap (articles 462 second paragraph and 463) are both given here rather than averaged. See criminal_exposure_note for the tier-by-tier breakdown.
- Rule
- Fixed only
- As of
- 7 September 2026
- Minimum
- 2,000
- Currency
- KMF
- Fixed cap
- 10,000,000
Who enforces it
Enforcement body
Ministère Public (public prosecutor), Union of the Comoros
What it reaches
Obligation class
Prohibition
What this law does
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Article 462 punishes with one to five years' imprisonment and a fine of 7,000,000 to 10,000,000 Comorian francs whoever produces, records, offers, makes available, disseminates, or publishes, through an information system or a data-storage medium, an image or a representation of a pornographic, erotic, or morally offensive character.
Its second paragraph separately punishes with two to seven years' imprisonment and a fine of 5,000,000 to 7,000,000 Comorian francs whoever produces, records, counterfeits, or distributes a counterfeit image, video image, or representation of that character that harms a person's dignity, through the same means.
Article 463 punishes, with two to five years' imprisonment and a fine of 5,000,000 to 10,000,000 Comorian francs, procuring, importing, or exporting an image or a representation of a child-pornographic, erotic character through an information system, and article 464 punishes intentional possession of the same at one to three years and 2,000 to 4,000,000 Comorian francs.
None of these articles limits the offending material to a photograph of a real person; the chapter's own definitions section (article 449) defines a covered representation broadly, as any representation of facts, information, or concepts in a form amenable to computerized processing, so a computer-generated or otherwise synthetic image or representation of the kind these articles describe falls within the same wording used for a captured one.
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