Media Alliance of Zimbabwe Challenges 'Vague' Patriot Act NewZimbabweCom: Zimbabwe
The Media Alliance of Zimbabwe has mounted a High Court application challenging the much-criticised Criminal Law Code Amendment Bill, widely known as the"Patriotic Bill".
The crime will have been committed by a citizen or permanent resident of Zimbabwe who takes an active part in a meeting involving or convened by an agent of a foreign government, if the citizen or resident knows or has the reason to believe, among other things that the meeting was to consider or plan armed intervention in Zimbabwe by the foreign government or to subvert the Constitutional government.
"Subverting, upsetting, overthrowing or overturning the constitutional government in Zimbabwe" is not defined with sufficient clarity, if at all, and consequently section 22A is imprecise, vague and unconstitutional," reads part of the application.
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