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There is jubilation among free speech proponents following the Constitutional Court’s annulment of the much-feared Section 25 of the Computer Misuse Act

Other laws on criminal defamation and promoting sectarianism are still alive and well in the statute books.

It is important for the citizens and the Constitution that security agencies respect the decision of the court

The Ugandan Constitutional Court Tuesday declared a section of the Computer Misuse Act, No. 2 of 2011 void with enforcement banned. Section 25 of the act prohibited any person from willfully and repe...

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A court in Uganda has overturned a section of a communications law that has been used to prosecute journalists, writers, and other government critics.

Free speech activists have welcomed the Constitutional Court’s annulment of Section 25 of the Computer Misuse Act 2011

Uganda's Constitutional Court on Tuesday quashed a key part of a controversial internet law which rights groups charged was aimed at stifling free speech.

Communications law has been used to prosecute government critics, journalists and writers, including two who fled to exile in Germany