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,
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 301
Defamation or Malicious Injury to Honour or Reputation · Preserved transcription; page attribution imported from the source collection. Verify against the original.
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.