On Thursday 20 June 2024, Mr Angelo DAN, Ambassador and Deputy Head of Mission at the Embassy of Benin in France, deposited the instruments of accession to the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime at the headquarters of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg.
In addition, Benin acceded to the First Additional Protocol to the Convention on Cybercrime, concerning the criminalisation of acts of a racist and xenophobic nature committed through computer systems. The Protocol extends the scope of the Convention on Cybercrime, including its substantive, procedural and international cooperation provisions, so as to also cover offences of racist or xenophobic propaganda.
Benin will shortly deposit the instruments of accession to the Second Additional Protocol to the Budapest Convention, which concerns the gathering of electronic evidence and cooperation.