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A convicted person may also, for a period of no more than six months, be prohibited from
performing, directly or through an intermediary, de jure or de facto, management
functions in any company that prints, publishes, consolidates or distributes newspapers or
periodicals.
Anyone who breaches the prohibition referred to above shall be punished with the
penalties set out in the present Article.
CHAPTER IX: OFFENSES AGAINST NATIONAL SECURITY
Article 431-60
Any Senegalese national shall be guilty of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment if
he:
1. supplies a foreign Power or its agents, in any form or by any means, with any
information, object, document, process, digitized data or computerized file that has to be
kept secret in the interests of national security;
2. secures, by any means, possession of such information, object, document, process,
computerized data or computerized file with a view to supplying it to a foreign Power or
its agents;
3. destroys or arranges the destruction of such information, object, document, process,
digitized data or computerized file for the benefit of a foreign Power.
Article 431-61
Any Senegalese national or foreign national who, with the intention of supplying them to
any third country, gathers information, objects, documents, processes, data or
computerized files, the gathering and exploitation of which are likely to harm national
security, shall be punished with a maximum penalty of hard labor for a specific term.
A penalty of 10 to 20 years' imprisonment shall be imposed on anyone with the function
or title of custodian or depositary of any information, object, document, process, digitized
data or computerized file that has to be kept secret in the interests of national security or
the knowledge of which could lead to the discovery of a national security secret who,
without the intention of committing treason or espionage:
1. destroys or removes it, arranges for the destruction or removal thereof, or reproduces
it or arranges for the reproduction thereof;
2. brings it to the attention or arranges for it to be brought to the attention of an
unqualified person or a member of the public.
The penalty shall be five to 10 years' imprisonment if the custodian or depositary has
acted in error, carelessness, lack of attention, negligence or failure to observe regulations.