Penal Code · English · 2015
Article 301
Defamation or Malicious Injury to Honour or Reputation
A person who intentionally causes injury to the honour or reputation of another person by communicating to a third party or parties, directly or indirectly, any imputation of an act, a fact or conduct that is false,
#is guilty of defamation, 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.
#A person who communicates to a third party or parties, directly or indirectly, any imputation of an act, a fact or a conduct that is true solely with the intent to injure the honour or reputation of another person,
#is guilty of malicious injury to honour or reputation, a Class 3 petty offence, punishable with a definite term of imprisonment of not more than 1 month, or a fine of 500 – 5,000 Nakfas, to be set in intervals of 500 Nakfas.
#Defamation or malicious injury to honour or reputation may only be prosecuted upon preferring of charges by the victim.
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