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Zimbabwe: Defamation No Longer Criminal
http://www.africaeagle.com/2014/07/zimbabwe-defamation-no-longer-criminal.html
The Constitutional Court has removed from the statutes Section 31 (a) (iii) of theCriminal Law (Codification and Reform Act), which criminalised defamation. This means defamation is no longer a criminal offence.
In a judgment by Deputy Chief Justice Luke Malaba, the section was dismissed as unjustifiable in a democratic society. The court ruled that the law was in breach of freedom of expression as enshrined in the Constitution.
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