6- News concerning lawsuits that the courts have decided to examine in closed sessions or where diffusion has been banned. 7- Names or photographs of convicts where the sentence is suspended. Part 5 Crimes Related to Public Trust Chapter One Counterfeit and use of Deeds Article 204 “Forging a document” means altering it with the aim of using it as a true document. The means of forgery are: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Changing the contents of the document including the writing, numbers, signs or photographs. Putting a forged signature or stamp on a document, or changing an authentic signature, stamp, imprint or photograph. Obtaining, through fraud, a person's signature, stamp or imprint on a document without the person knowing its content and without his consent. Forging or counterfeiting a document and ascribing it to another person. Filling a signed, stamped or imprinted blank paper with information that does not comply with the correct information of the holder of the signature, stamp or imprint. 6. Assuming an identity or changing it in a document that was made to prove it. 7. Changing the truth of a document. Article 205 An official document is issued by a public employee or someone who participates in its issuing in any way, or gives it an official capacity. Article 206 Whoever forges an official document shall be punished with imprisonment for a term not exceeding ten years. If a public employee commits a forgery during or as part of his job, he shall be liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding fifteen years. The penalty for forging an unofficial document shall be up to three years in prison. Article 207 Any doctor or midwife who issues a forged certificate or statement concerning pregnancy, birth, disease, deformity or death or any other thing related to this profession shall be punished with imprisonment for a term not exceeding. Article 208 Whoever knowingly gives untrue testimonies to the competent authorities in any procedures related to a death or an inheritance investigation, whenever a certificate of death or inheritance is issued based on these testimonies shall be punished with imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years and/or a fine not exceeding ten thousand Qatari Riyals (QR 10.000).