AngolaPenal Code, Child Pornography Including a Virtual or Simulated Minor
Código Penal de Angola, art. 198.º (Pornografia Infantil), Lei n.º 38/20 de 11 de Novembro de 2020
In force.
An AI prohibited practices rule binding public and private bodies.
- Obligation class
- Prohibition
- Audit expectation
- none
- Setting the rule reaches
- General
What it requires
- Do not produce, offer, make available, disseminate, or transmit through an information system any material depicting a real or virtual minor under 18 engaged in sexually explicit conduct, including a synthetic or AI-generated depiction with no real child involved.
- Do not acquire, possess, or facilitate access to such material by any means.
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.
In the frameworks
- NIST AI RMF
- MAP 3.3Targeted application scope is specified and documented based on the system’s capability, established context, and AI system categorization.
- NIST AI 600-1
- GAI-RISK-08Information Integrity
- GAI-RISK-11Obscene, Degrading, and/or Abusive Content
- MIT mitigations Draft
- FINOS AIGF
- AIR-PREV-005System Acceptance Testing
- ETSI EN 304 223
Our reading of where this law's duties sit in each framework. It never says that running a control meets the law. How we read a framework against the law
Identifiers refer to ETSI EN 304 223 V2.1.1 (2025-12), © ETSI 2025, all rights reserved. ETSI owns the standard; no ETSI text (titles or sentences) is reproduced here. The standard is free to download from ETSI.
If you get it wrong
Criminal exposureYes
Criminal exposure note
Producing or distributing child pornography through an information system draws imprisonment of two to ten years (Article 198(2)); acquiring, possessing, or facilitating access draws one to five years (Article 198(3)); a professional or for-profit actor draws three to ten years (Article 198(4)).
What it makes you log
Logging duty
Article 198 punishes producing, offering, disseminating, and possessing child pornography, including a depiction of a real or virtual minor, and states no duty to create, keep, or produce a log or record of anything.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
Article 198(2) punishes with imprisonment of two to ten years a person who produces child pornography to be spread through an information system, or who offers, makes available, disseminates, or transmits it through an information system.
Article 198(5)(a) defines 'child pornography' for this purpose as any material that visually or aurally represents a minor under 18, or a person, real or virtual, appearing to be a minor under 18, engaged in sexually explicit conduct or conduct that incites such conduct. Because the definition expressly reaches a 'virtual' person merely appearing to be a minor, the offence covers a wholly synthetic, AI-generated depiction with no real child involved, not only material derived from a real child.
Article 198(1) separately punishes conduct that exposes a minor under 18 to obscene material or uses or procures a minor for pornographic photography, film, or recording. Article 198(3) punishes acquiring, possessing, or facilitating access to child-pornography material by any means with imprisonment of one to five years. Article 198(4) raises the penalty to three to ten years where the actor makes a profession or profit of the conduct described.
Lei n.º 38/20's own Article 9 has the Penal Code enter into force ninety days after the Law's publication in the Official Gazette's Diário da República Iª Série n.º 179 of ; no source stating the resulting day has been located.
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