{"schemaVersion":1,"recordType":"legal-article","id":"law:eri:code:penal:2015:article:301","workId":"law:eri:code:penal:2015","expressionId":"law:eri:code:penal:2015:en","title":"Defamation or Malicious Injury to Honour or Reputation","number":"301","language":"en","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/301/","hierarchy":{"part":"PART II — THE SPECIAL PART","book":"BOOK III — OFFENCES AGAINST THE PERSON, PUBLIC DECENCY AND THE FAMILY","title":null,"chapter":"Chapter 2. — Offences against Personal Integrity"},"paragraphs":[{"id":"p1","number":"1","text":"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,","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/301/#p1","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":214,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/214/?article=301&paragraph=p1#article-301-p1"},{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":215,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/215/?article=301&paragraph=p1#article-301-p1"}]},{"id":"p1-tail","number":"","parentId":"p1","text":"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.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/301/#p1-tail","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":215,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/215/?article=301&paragraph=p1-tail#article-301-p1-tail"}]},{"id":"p2","number":"2","text":"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,","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/301/#p2","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":215,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/215/?article=301&paragraph=p2#article-301-p2"}]},{"id":"p2-tail","number":"","parentId":"p2","text":"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.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/301/#p2-tail","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":215,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/215/?article=301&paragraph=p2-tail#article-301-p2-tail"}]},{"id":"p3","number":"3","text":"Defamation or malicious injury to honour or reputation may only be prosecuted upon preferring of charges by the victim.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/301/#p3","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":215,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/215/?article=301&paragraph=p3#article-301-p3"}]}],"caution":"English-language 2015 Ministry of Justice edition. Refworld catalogues this English expression as an unofficial translation; Eri Atlas has not independently verified the translation."}