Zimbabwe high court rebukes insult-laws prosecution

[JURIST] Zimbabwe's highest court on Wednesday rebuked state prosecutors who have been pursuing actions against people for insulting President Robert Mugabe [BBC profile; JURIST news archive]. The court said that this kind of prosecution only brought more disrespect to Mugabe, who has been Zimbabwe's president since the country's independence from Britain in 1980. The justice minister was ordered to appear in court November 20 to advocate for freedom of expression and its protection by continued enforcement under a new constitution...

Source: http://jurist.org/paperchase/2013/10/zimbabwe-high-court-rebukes-insult-laws-prosecution.php

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