Swaziland

Swaziland has a number of laws on the statute books which criminalise expression including the Cinematograph Act of 1920, the Sedition and Subversive Activities Act of 1938, the Criminal Procedure and Evidence Act of 1938 and the Protection of the Person of the Ndlovukazi Act of 1967 which contain a number of provisions which criminalise expression and in particular which contain overbroad definitions of sedition and subversion and which also criminalise defamation, false news, and insulting the President, the King, the Queen Mother, public figures, foreign princes or the armed forces.

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Media Law Handbook for Southern Africa – Volume 1- Chapeter 7: The Kingdom of Swaziland

Media Law Handbook for Southern Africa – Volume 1- Chapeter 7: The Kingdom of Swaziland

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