"This study examines the existence of criminal defamation and insult laws in the territory of the 57 participating States of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). In doing so, it offers a broad, comparative overview of the compliance of OSCE participating States’ legislat
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ion with international standards and best practices in the field of defamation law and freedom of expression. The primary purpose of the study is to identify relevant provisions in law. Although the study does include examples of the usage of these provisions, it is not an analysis of legal practice [...] The study is divided into two sections. The first section offers conclusions according to each of the principal categories researched and in reference to international standards on freedom of expression. The second section provides the detailed research findings for each country, including relevant examples. As the study’s title suggests, the primary research category is general criminal laws on defamation and insult. However, this study also covers special laws protecting the reputation or honour of particular persons or groups of people (e.g., presidents, public officials, deceased persons); special laws protecting the ‘honour’ of the state and state symbols; and blasphemy and religious insult laws." (About this study, page 2)
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"Situation des moyens d'information dans les pays suivants: Basutoland — Côte française des Somalis — Kenya — Tanganyika — Ouganda — Nyassaland — Rhodésie du Nord, du Sud — Somalie britannique — Union Sud Africaine — Colombie — Guyane britannique — Guyane française — Suri
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nam — Canada — Costa Rica — Etats-Unis — Guadeloupe — Guatemala = Honduras britannique — Jamaïque — Nicaragua — Panama — Salvador — Martinique — Aden — Afghanistan — Arabie Séoudite — Ceylan — Chypre — Irak — Israël — Royaume de Jordanie Hachemite — Perse — Syrie — Thaïlande — Australie et autres pays d'Europe: Irlande — Lichtenstein — Monaco — Royaume-Uni — Irlande du Nord." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 1782, topic code 10, 20, 30)
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"Situation of the information media in the following countries: Basutoland [= Lesotho] — French Somaliland [Djibouti] — Kenya — Tanganyika — Uganda — Nyasaland [= Malawi] — Northern Rhodesia [= Zambia] — Southern Rhodesia [= Zimbabwe] — British Somaliland — Union of South Africa â€
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” Colombia — British Guiana — French Guiana — Surinam — Canada — Costa Rica — United States — Guadeloupe — Guatemala — British Honduras [= Belize] — Jamaica — Nicaragua — Panama — Salvador — Martinique — Aden [= Yemen] — Afghanistan — Saudi Arabia — Ceylon — Cyprus — Iraq — Israel — Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan — Persia — Syria — Thailand — Australia and some countries in Europe — Ireland — Lichtenstein — Monaco — United Kingdom — Northern Ireland." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 1783, topic code 10, 20, 30)
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