West Africa: MFWA Decries Wanton and Discriminatory Use of False News Laws

West Africa: MFWA Decries Wanton and Discriminatory Use of False News Laws

Originally published by AllAfrica · mfwa@africaonline.gh (MFWA). Read the full story →

[MFWA] The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) condemns the increasing spate of what appears to be the weaponisation of Section 76 of the Electronic Communications Act, 2008 (Act 775), and Section 208 (sometimes paired with Section 207) of the Criminal Offences Act, 1960 (Act 29) to criminalise speech in Ghana.

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