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Media organisations and groups yesterday asked the House of Representatives to drop all press regulations bills before it, arguing that clauses contained in them discourage freedom of speech and press [...]

Civil society groups have demanded government's withdrawal of the proposed Patriotic Bill the NGOs insist was both undemocratic and tailored to stifle free speech in the country. Zimbabwe's Zanu PF [...]

Deputy Chief Whip of the Senate, Senator Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi, has said that opponents of the Hate Speech Bill are ignorant of the dangers that loom if the bill is [...]

Deputy Chief Whip of the Senate Senator Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi has said opponents of the Hate Speech Bill are ignorant of the dangers that loom if the bill is not [...]

Byline: Abdulrahman A. Abdulrauf Nigeria is preparing legislation that could mean the death sentence for anyone found guilty of hate speech. It is also contemplating new media laws that have [...]

Byline: Samson Adenekan Following the reintroduction at the National Assembly of a bill seeking to sanction hate speech in Nigeria, the Action Democratic Party (ADP) has cautioned the lawmakers against [...]

Byline: Emma Okonji Disturbed by the passage of the anti-digital rights bill across some African countries, some Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) and Human Rights Defenders in the continent have called [...]

Years after a contested election, the former Prime Minister Meles Zenawi defended before parliament the now infamous legislation designed to fight terrorism. It was a passionate advocacy of a flawed [...]

The lower chamber of the House of Representatives (Parliament) in Liberia has unanimously approved a bill to decriminalise libel. The majority (40 lawmakers) also voted to maintain 'the Kamara Abdullah [...]

Nov 13, 2017 (FrontPageAfrica/All Africa Global Media) -- EVER SINCE LIBERTY PARTY opted to legally halt the holding of the runoff Presidential elections; Liberia has witness an unprecedented rise of [...]

Sep 10, 2015 (FrontPageAfrica/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- The Liberian Senate, one of the bodies clothes with the responsibility to ratify several laws protecting free speech and freedom [...]

Nairobi, Jun 30, 2009 (Human Rights Watch/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- Ethiopia's draft counterterrorism law could punish political speech and peaceful protest as terrorist acts and encourage unfair [...]