Article 174

A person who with intent to inflame the Court, Court officials, witnesses or the parties, publishes or spreads news or reports, or any other information orally or in writing, known to be biased or, which distorts the facts, and which has been drawn up for the purpose of influencing a judicial decision in a case being tried or pending,

is guilty of perverting the course of justice by biased publications, a Class 2 petty offence, punishable with a definite term of imprisonment of not less than 1 month and not more than 6 months, or a fine of 5,001 – 20,000 Nakfas, to be set in intervals of 1,000 Nakfas.