Czech RepublicCriminal Code Section 191a, Non-Consensual Identity-Based Pornographic Depiction
Zakon c. 40/2009 Sb., trestni zakonik, Sec. 191a
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In force.
An AI prohibited practices rule binding public and private bodies.
As of 6 September 2026.
What it requires
- Do not produce, distribute, or make available pornographic material depicting or otherwise using a real person's identity or likeness, including a synthetic or AI-manipulated depiction, without that person's consent.
If you get it wrong
Criminal exposureYes
Criminal exposure note
Trestni zakonik Sec. 191a(1): up to two years' imprisonment, a ban on activity, or forfeiture of property for producing, importing, exporting, transporting, offering, making publicly accessible, mediating, putting into circulation, selling or otherwise supplying a pornographic work depicting or using a non-consenting person. Sec. 191a(2): six months to three years where the act causes significant harm to the depicted person, is committed by a member of an organized group, is committed through the press, film, radio, television, a publicly accessible computer network or a similarly effective means, or is committed to obtain a significant benefit for the offender or another. Sec. 191a(3): one to five years where the act causes large-scale harm, is committed by a group operating across multiple states, or is committed to obtain a large-scale benefit.
What it reaches
Obligation class
Prohibition
What it makes you log
Logging duty
Section 191a criminalizes producing, importing, exporting, transporting, offering, making publicly accessible, mediating, putting into circulation, selling or otherwise supplying a pornographic depiction of a person made without that person's consent, including a synthetic or digitally altered likeness. The section states no duty to create, keep or produce a log or record of anything.
- Kind
- None
- As of
- 22 September 2026
Who checks it
Audit expectation
none
What this law does
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Whoever produces, imports, exports, transports, offers, makes publicly accessible, mediates, puts into circulation, sells or otherwise supplies to another a photographic, film, computer, electronic or other pornographic work depicting or otherwise using a person the offender knows did not consent to that depiction or use, faces up to two years' imprisonment, a ban on activity, or forfeiture of property; the offence does not require the image to be a photograph of a real event and reaches a synthetic or digitally altered depiction of a real person's likeness made without consent.
The penalty rises to six months to three years where the act causes significant harm, is committed by a member of an organized group, is committed through the press, film, radio, television, a publicly accessible computer network or a similarly effective means, or is committed to obtain a significant benefit. It rises further to one to five years where it causes large-scale harm, is committed by a group operating across multiple states, or is committed to obtain a large-scale benefit.
When LexLint raises it
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Read the law
zakonyprolidi.cz, consolidated text of the trestni zakonik
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