SECTION 198 — Forbidden Publications

(1) Whoever publishes: - any record of any proceeding of a Court or of the Legal Department in respect of felony or misdemeanour before it has been read out in open Court; or - any account of proceedings in camera or in any juvenile court; or - any conviction of a minor mentioning any particular allowing of his identification; or - any information on the proceedings of parliamentary inquiry committees before their report has been laid on the table of the House, except a communiqué issued by the bureau of the said committees; or: - any information on the proceedings of the Higher Judicial Council except a communiqué issued by the Chairman or Vice-Chairman of the Council, shall be punished with fine of from CFAF 10 000 (ten thousand) to CFAF 500 000 (five hundred thousand). (2) Whoever publishes any deliberation in chambers by any Court shall be punished with fine of from CFAF 10 000 (ten thousand) to CFAF 3 000 000 (three million). (3) In case of publication by the press the penalties shall be doubled. (4) Whoever, in a Courtroom or during Court proceedings, without the authorization of the presiding judge a) makes any sound recording, or b) shoots any image, shall be punished as provided for in Subsection (3) above.