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| Region | Côte d’Ivoire |
| Issue | Censorship of LGBT issues |
| Status | Imprisonment as punishment |
| Start Date | Jul 7, 1981 |
| End Date | Jun 26, 2019 |
| Description | The 1981 Penal Code of Cote d'Ivoire contained Article 360, which gives a penalty of three months to two years imprisonment for "acts of outrage to public decency". The code also contained a clause stating that if it was an "improper or unnatural act with a person of the same sex", the sentence would be imprisonment from six months to two years instead. There was no information as to whether it was used to persecute LGBTIQ+ people in practice but the explicit provision was removed in the 2019 Penal Code. |
| Sources | https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/national-practice/loi-no-81-640-du-31-juillet-1981-instituant-le-code-penal https://webarchive.archive.unhcr.org/20230520164422/https://www.refworld.org/docid/568e2ee74.html |
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| Status | Imprisonment as punishment |
| Start Date | Jul 7, 1981 |
| End Date | Jun 26, 2019 |
| Description | The 1981 Penal Code of Cote d'Ivoire contained Article 360, which gives a penalty of three months to two years imprisonment for "acts of outrage to public decency". The code also contained a clause stating that if it was an "improper or unnatural act with a person of the same sex", the sentence would be imprisonment from six months to two years instead. There was no information as to whether it was used to persecute LGBTIQ+ people in practice but the explicit provision was removed in the 2019 Penal Code. |
| Sources | https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/national-practice/loi-no-81-640-du-31-juillet-1981-instituant-le-code-penal https://webarchive.archive.unhcr.org/20230520164422/https://www.refworld.org/docid/568e2ee74.html |