[PRAGUE, 18 October 2007] - Czech President Vaclav Klaus has signed a bill that makes possession of child pornography a felony punishable by up to two years in prison, the president's spokesman Petr Hajek said in a statement.
The lower house first approved the bill last June outlawing possession of child pornography. The bill was struck down by the upper house in August. The lower house then overruled the Senate vote in September.
While producing and selling child pornography is a crime in the Czech Republic, possessing such images was not.
That became evident earlier this year after Austrian authorities caught a ring that had provided pedophiles worldwide with child porn online.
The ring's clients in the Czech Republic could not be prosecuted since possession of child pornography was not illegal.
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