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– Morocco's reform of speech laws keeps red lines intact (Demo)

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By HRNJ-Uganda International Media News May 5, 2017

The new Press and Publications Law maintains most of the speech offenses in the previous 2002 law in the same or a slightly altered form, eliminating imprisonment as a punishment, while maintaining fines and court-ordered suspensions of publications.
Source: MEDIA FEED

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