Zimbabwe's Top Court Scraps Defamation Law

The Constitutional Court has ruled that the criminal defamation law which had seen many journalists being arrested in the past is invalid.

  • Zimbabwe:   Top Court Scraps Defamation Law

    The Herald, 3 February 2016

    Criminal defamation law under which several journalists were arrested during a discharge of their duties is invalid and a dead law, the Constitutional Court has ruled. Read more »

Chief justice Godfrey Chidyasiku (far right)

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