(Articles 9 to 11). The rights and guarantees granted to victims of trafficking by the international legal instruments ratified by Senegal are covered in Chapter IV of the bill (Article 12 et seq.). Such is the overall structure of the this bill. The National Assembly adopted, in its session of Friday 29 April 2005; The President of the Republic enacts the following law: Chapter I. - On trafficking in persons and exploitation of the begging of others Section 1. - Trafficking in persons Article I. - The recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of persons by means of the threat or use of violence, abduction, fraud, deception, abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or by the giving or receiving of payments to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of sexual exploitation, forced labour or services, slavery or practices similar to slavery, or servitude shall be punishable by imprisonment for 5 to 10 years and a fine of 5 to 20 million francs. The offence shall be constituted when the recruitment, transport, transfer, harbouring or reception concerns a minor, even if none of the means listed in the previous paragraph are used. Imprisonment of 10 to 30 years shall be incurred when the offence is committed by resorting to acts of torture or barbarism or with a view to removing human organs or when it exposes the victim to an immediate risk of death or injury likely to cause permanent disability. Art. 2 - The maximum penalty provided for in paragraph 1 of article 1 shall always be pronounced when the offence has been committed either: - in a group ; - against a minor or a person who is particularly vulnerable because of pregnancy, advanced age or state of health resulting in a physical or mental deficiency; or with the use of mass media; - by an ascendant or by a person having authority over the victim. Section 2. - Exploitation of the begging of others Art. 3 - Anyone who organizes the begging of others with a view to profiting from it shall be punished by imprisonment for 2 to 5 years and a fine of 500,000 francs to 2,000,000 francs if he or she hires, entices or kidnaps a person to beg or pressures him or her to beg or continue to beg. The penalty shall not be suspended when the offence is committed against a minor, a person who is particularly vulnerable because of his or her age or state of health resulting in a physical or mental deficiency, several persons, recourse to or use of coercion, violence or deceitful means on the person who begs. Chapter II. - Smuggling of migrants Art. 4 - Clandestine migration organized by land, sea or air shall be punishable by 5 to 10 years of imprisonment and a fine of 1,000,000 to 5,000,000, whether the national territory serves as an origin, a transit or a destination zone. Art. 5 - Fraud or falsification of visas, documents or travel papers or any other documents attesting to the status of resident or national of Senegal or of a foreign country or granting the status of refugee, statelessness, displaced person or victim of smuggling shall be punished by the same penalties as those provided for in the previous article.

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