PARAGRAPH III : SLAVE TRADE- PAWNAGE - BONDAGE ARTICLE 242: Whoever enters an agreement to transfer, either for free or for a fee, the freedom of a third party shall be punished with imprisonment of between five to ten years. Money, goods and other valuable objects received to enforce the agreement or as deposit for a future agreement, shall be seized. The same penalty shall apply to bringing into the Republic of Mali people who are the subject of the aforementioned agreement, or taking people out or attempting to take people out of the Republic, on account of the said agreement entered into abroad. However, imprisonment may be increased to twenty years if the person who is the subject of the said agreement, either inside or outside Mali, is a child below fifteen. In the cases provided for in this article, the court may also order the loss of rights as provided for in article 8 of this code. A residency prohibition of between one to twenty years may also be ordered. ARTICLE 243:It shall be prohibited to pawn people, irrespective of the reason. Any agreement, irrespective of its form, which is concurrent to marriage and mortgages the fate of the children to be born in this marriage, shall be considered pawnage. Whoever uses or accepts a person as a pawn shall be punished with imprisonment of between six months to two years and a fine of between 20, 000 to 100,000 francs. However, the penalty shall be imprisonment between one to five years and a fine between 50,000 to 500,000 francs if the person used as a pawn is below fifteen. Bondage shall be found to exist and punished accordingly when someone is used as a pawn, resulting in the obligation for this person to live with another person. PARAGRAPHIV: CHILD TRAFFIKING ARTICLE 244: Child trafficking shall refer to all processes through which a child is moved, inside or outside a country, in conditions that turn him/her into market commodity for at least one of the people present, and irrespective of the aim of the child's displacement : - any act which includes the recruitment, transportation, possession or sale of children ; - any act which leads to the displacement of the child inside or outside a country. Any person found guilty of child trafficking shall be punished with imprisonment of between five to twenty years. SECTION X: FALSE TESTIMONY - REFUSAL TO TESTIFY AND WITNESS TAMPERING ARTICLE 245.: Whoever, in any manner whatsoever, gives a false testimony without retracting before the closure of proceedings shall be punished with imprisonment of between two to years, and optionally a fine of between 25, 000 to 300, 000 francs. - If the false testimony was given in a criminal proceeding, the penalty shall be imprisonment of between five to twenty years, and optionally a fine of between 25, 000 to 300, 000 francs as well as residency prohibition of between one to twenty years. - The penalty for false testimony shall apply to witness tampering. 43