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MISA Demands Abolition Of Defamation of the President Law
The Media Institute of Southern AFRICA (MISA) Zambia has demanded that the defamation of the President Law should be abolished because it is archaic and discriminatory.
MISA has instead recommended that the Zambia Law Development Commission should come up with a different law that would only allow for a fine once one is found guilty of defaming the president and not a custodial sentence which is currently the case.
Making submissions to the Zambia Law Development Commission on review of the penal Code Act in relation to issues bordering on freedom of expression and freedom of the press today, MISA National Director Austin Kayanda has also demanded for the removal of clauses relating to prohibited publications, Sedious Practices,defamation and the public order Act from the constitution.
He says the clauses are old and archaic and do not apply to the country.
Mr. Kayanda says MISA and its partners will continue putting Government under pressure until it succumbs to the demands of the people.
And Legal Practitioner Daniel Libati has submitted that section 67 of the penal code Act which relates to publication of false news with Intent to cause fear and alarm to the public should be removed.
Mr. Libati says they have proposed that this act be removed because it is an hindrance to press Freedom.
He cited the recent judgment of the High Court by Judge Isaac Chali involving Daily Nation Editor Richard Sakala and Macdonald Chipenzi which determined that it was not constitutional as an example.
Posted by Editor
on August 6, 2015. Filed under LATEST NEWS.
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New Educated Zambia©❤√
August 6, 2015 at 9:40 pm
Continue crying. The only way you can change these archaic laws is by not voting in the same chaps all time. We ask you to vote upnd in 2016 and make your lives better
Hello Haters
August 7, 2015 at 5:15 am
Let them keep this ancient law, so that every time they take someone to come for defamation, they can be looking so stupid, since everyone knows that they are comedians and jokes is what made them ascend to power.
Hello Haters
August 7, 2015 at 5:17 am
Yaba court ba bloody sh*t imwe, some of these ancient languages like English aikona man.
Judge Joe Bidden
August 7, 2015 at 10:56 am
Ma rubbish thats why they end up sending innocent citizens to prison over a bag of Jamesons. That part of stone age constitution needs revising we cant be living in bondage with fear of “insulting a president”. The western world who brought that constitution to us have long dumped it and we are still stuck with it.
Paul Phiri
August 7, 2015 at 11:35 am
I am in full support of this.
mwape kasama
August 7, 2015 at 12:18 pm
Why do you want to defame the President? So you are saying those with money can insult the President and simply pay a fine is what you are advocating for? ATI Ba MISA!! how could a normal person think so low and retrogresive? Naimwe bene muliciwelewele amano tamwaba mulicipunshya fye kanshi!!
Ba naki
August 7, 2015 at 12:38 pm
Poor MISA