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,
Penal Code
2015 English source edition · Current applicability not established.
English-language 2015 Ministry of Justice edition. Refworld catalogues this English expression as an unofficial translation; Eri Atlas has not independently verified the translation.
Article 174
Biased Publications Intended to Pervert the Course of Justice · Preserved transcription; page attribution imported from the source collection. Verify against the original.
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.