Article 223: Shall be punished by an imprisonment of six days to three months, whoever,
verbally or by gesture or writing, publicly insults a religious leader on the occasion of the
exercise the ministry.
Anyone who uses violence or assault against a religious leader in the exercise of his ministry is
punished by imprisonment of one month to two years.
Article 224: Shall be punished by an imprisonment of one month to one year and a fine of 50,000
to 500,000 francs, whoever:
1° disrupts a funeral ceremony or convoy;
2° infringes or desecrates the place where a dead person rests;
3° defaces or desecrates a funerary monument.
Article 225: Shall be punished by imprisonment of two months to two years and a fine of
100,000 to 1,000,000 francs, any person who:
1° desecrates or mutilates all or part of a corpse, whether buried or not;
2° outrages or publicly strikes a corpse;
3° causes a corpse or part of a corpse to disappear or be removed.
Section 10: Racial or religious discrimination
Article 226: For the purposes of this section, is qualified as:
1° racism, any form of physical, moral or intellectual hostility or any manifestation of hatred
towards a human being or a community because of its racial origin or the color of its skin, any
acts, words or writings aimed at establishing or instituting a hierarchy of races, the preservation
or exaltation of a so-called superior race;
2° xenophobia, any manifestation of hostility or hatred towards a person or a group of persons
because of their nationality or foreign origin;
3° tribalism, any manifestation of hostility or hatred towards a person or a group of persons,
based exclusively on ethnic or tribal origin, any favors granted to a person or a group of persons
on the basis of exclusively tribal or ethnic considerations;
4 ° racial discrimination, any distinction, exclusion, restriction or preference based on race, color,
descent or national or ethnic origin, which has the purpose or effect of nullifying or impairing the
recognition, enjoyment or exercise, on an equal footing, of human rights and fundamental
freedoms in the political, economic, social, cultural or any other field of public life public life;
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