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Yes — Code pénal (Loi 2024-027) art. 255-1 public expressions of support for terrorist acts or groups, and apologie of a qualified terrorist organisation (names, terms, symbols, or any other sign).

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    Yes — Code pénal (Loi 2024-027) art. 255-1 public expressions of support for terrorist acts or groups, and apologie of a qualified terrorist organisation (names, terms, symbols, or any other sign).
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    art. 255-1

    Loi n° 2024-027 du 13 décembre 2024 portant Code pénal

    Target
    Public expressions of support for terrorist acts or groups, and apologie of a qualified terrorist organisation
    Test
    By any means: calling or inciting terrorist offences; using a name, term, symbol, or public expressions of support for terrorist acts or groups; promoting ideologies favourable to terrorism; or using any other sign for the apologie of a qualified terrorist organisation. Online form is a higher limb.
    Max
    5 years and a fine of 1,000,000 francs; 7 years and 2,000,000 francs via an online public-communication service
    Toute personne, qui, par n’importe quel moyen, appelle ou incite à commettre des infractions terroristes, incite au fanatisme ethnique, racial ou religieux ou utilise un nom, un terme, un symbole, des expressions publiques de soutien à des actes de terrorisme et/ou des groupes terroristes, diffuse des discours de haine ou fait la promotion d’idéologies favorables au terrorisme, renforce des tensions ethniques et religieuses susceptibles de fournir une base au terrorisme, ou utilise tout autre signe dans le but de faire l’apologie d’une organisation qualifiée terroriste, est punie d’un emprisonnement de cinq ans et d’une amende de 1 000 000 de francs.

    Official French, Journal officiel de la République du Mali, spécial n° 21 of 13 December 2024, Loi 2024-027 art. 255-1 (chapter « De l’apologie du terrorisme »). Working English: whoever, by any means, … uses a name, term, symbol, or public expressions of support for terrorist acts and/or terrorist groups, … or uses any other sign for the purpose of making the apology of a qualified terrorist organisation — 5 years.

    Cite · C. pén. (Loi 2024-027), art. 255-1 · as of 2026-09-05

    • Do not treat the overlay limbs as the whole of 255-1. Apologie of a terrorist organisation is a distinct charged form.
    • Public support for terrorist acts or groups, and apologie of a terrorist organisation, are on the face of the statute. The same article also carries ethnic-fanaticism and hate-speech overlay limbs. Do not collapse those limbs.
    • This is the 2024 Code. Do not cite the repealed 2001 Code as live.
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