SECTOR 1 according to another participant on the panel, that the hand of the state was behind the incident, which he doubts. In fact, adds another panellist, some grip is necessary – and the Senegalese state does not have it – over the technical operators generally situated outside of the national territory and beyond the reach of the country’s courts, in order to be able to block or filter sites. An example of the government’s limits in this respect is, according to this panellist, the aborted attempt by the Criminal Investigations Division (DIC) to close the Senewab7 portal in 2012. At the time, the police had removed the computer hardware but had not managed to put the site out of commission. The site is, in fact, hosted outside the country. In any event, the conditions for the possible suspension of an Internet site guilty of violating laws and regulations are clearly defined by a range of legislation and regulations on cyber crime. Scores: Individual scores: 1 Country does not meet indicator 2 Country meets only a few aspects of indicator 3 Country meets some aspects of indicator 4 Country meets most aspects of indicator 5 Country meets all aspects of the indicator Average score: 3.9 (2010:n/a; 2008:n/a; 2006:n/a) 1.10 Civil society in general and media lobby groups actively advance the cause of media freedom. With regard to Law 96-04 of 22 February 1996, a panellist recalls that it is the fruit of consultations between the minister in charge of the sector, the Senegalese Union of Information and Communications Professionals (SYNPICS) and civil society, on the basis of a draft proposed by press players and in the wake of an important march for these freedoms in 1991. 7 82 http://www.seneweb.com/ AFRICAN MEDIA BAROMETER SENEGAL 2013