shall be punishable by imprisonment for five to ten years and a fine of 500,000 to 5,000,000 francs. These penalties shall be doubled if the offence was committed through the press, radio or television. Anyone who denies another person access to places open to the public, to a job or to housing solely on the grounds of race, ethnicity or religion shall be liable to the same penalties. Article 230: Anyone who deliberately causes bodily harm to a person, in particular by means of scarification, indelible tattooing, and teeth marking or by any other process likely to characterize the membership of this person to a specific ethnic group or grouping, shall be punishable by imprisonment of one to five years and a fine of 100,000 to 500,000 francs. Article 231: Anyone who is guilty of disseminating false information or rumors with a racial connotation, with the intention of stirring up one community against another, even if the uprising did not take place shall be punished by imprisonment for a term of five to ten years and a fine of 500,000 to 5,000,000 francs. Anyone who, with no grounds, makes accusations of racism, xenophobia or racial or religious discrimination against all or part of the Ivorian people in the foreign press, on foreign radio and television, by means of new information and communication technologies allowing for largescale dissemination, in international meetings or forums held on the territory of a foreign State, shall be punished by the same penalties. The penalty shall be doubled if: 1° the offender is of Ivorian nationality; 2° the offender is on duty in chancelleries or Ivorian diplomatic and consular missions abroad; 3° the offender represents Côte d’Ivoire in an international organization. Article 232: Any person convicted under the provisions of this section may be deprived of the rights mentioned in article 68. The publication of the conviction may be ordered. Article 233: The offenses provided for in this section constitute misdemeanors. Section 11: Illegal gambling and pawn-broking Article 234: Shall be punished by an imprisonment from two months to one year and a fine year and a fine of 500,000 to 5,000,000 francs, or one of these two penalties only, any person who, without authorization, and in a public place or a place open to the public:

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