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Jail terms for defaming officials online under new law
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http://www.sources.com/Releases/NR2186.htm
Publisher: Reporters Without Borders
Date Written: 07/08/2014
Year Published: 2014
Resource Type: Article
Madagascar's National Assembly has quietly adopted a cybercrime law that provides for prison sentences for anyone insulting or defaming a state representative online. Debated and passed without anyone knowing
Abstract: Madagascar's National Assembly has quietly adopted a cybercrime law that provides for prison sentences for anyone insulting or defaming a state representative online.
Debated and passed without anyone knowing, the law has been the hot topic for journalists, bloggers and social network users ever since they learned of its existence. Any of them could be imprisoned if a court were to decide that something they posted on the Internet had slighted or maligned an official.
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