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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.

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