{"id":28285,"date":"2020-08-05T18:14:19","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T18:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=28285"},"modified":"2020-08-05T18:14:19","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T18:14:19","slug":"buhari-told-to-reverse-hate-speech-fine-immediately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-told-to-reverse-hate-speech-fine-immediately","title":{"rendered":"Buhari told to reverse hate speech fine immediately"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n<p>The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has called on President Muhammadu Buhari, to reverse the penalty for hate speech fine immediately.<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST recalls that the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, on Tuesday, reviewed the penalty for hate speech in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammed disclosed that the penalty for hate speech has increased from N500,000 to N5 million.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister stated this at the unveiling ceremony of the reviewed Nigeria Broadcasting Code organized by the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) in Lagos.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cThe amended Code also includes the provision raising the fine for hate speech from 500,000 Naira to 5 million Naira.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reacting, SERAP in a tweet via its official Twitter handle on Tuesday, described the increase in hate speech fine as \u2018unconstitutional and illegal,\u2019 adding that it would further curtail freedom of expression and open the door for law enforcement officials to target critics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re calling on President Buhari to immediately reverse the unconstitutional and illegal increase in \u2018hate speech fine\u2019 from N500,000 to N5m,\u201d SERAP tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ll fight to challenge this illegality in court to make sure that the fine doesn\u2019t become another tool for repression.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis fine would further curtail freedom of expression and open the door for law enforcement officials to target critics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fine fails to meet the standards of legality, necessity and proportionality in article 19(3) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Buhari government should be removing restrictions on freedom of expression, not imposing heavy fines that risk stifling critical public debate on important issues.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-center code-block-2\">\n<div align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe leadership of the National Assembly should publicly condemn this restriction on constitutional rights.\u201d<\/p>\n<nav class=\"jp-relatedposts-i2\" data-layout=\"list\">\n<div class=\"jp-related-posts-i2__row\" data-post-count=\"3\"><\/div>\n<\/nav>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria: The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has called on President Muhammadu Buhari, to reverse the penalty for hate speech fine immediately. DAILY POST recalls that the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, on Tuesday, reviewed the penalty for hate speech in Nigeria. Mohammed disclosed that the penalty for hate speech [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":25899,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29,14],"tags":[97,641],"class_list":["post-28285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-policy","tag-buhari","tag-serap"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Buhari told to reverse hate speech fine immediately - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has called on President Muhammadu Buhari, to reverse the penalty for\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-told-to-reverse-hate-speech-fine-immediately\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Buhari told to reverse hate speech fine immediately\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has called on President Muhammadu Buhari, to reverse the penalty for\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-told-to-reverse-hate-speech-fine-immediately\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-08-05T18:14:19+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/06\/muhammed-buhari-1140x570-1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1140\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"570\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-told-to-reverse-hate-speech-fine-immediately#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-told-to-reverse-hate-speech-fine-immediately\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"Buhari told to reverse hate speech fine immediately\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-08-05T18:14:19+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-told-to-reverse-hate-speech-fine-immediately\"},\"wordCount\":283,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-told-to-reverse-hate-speech-fine-immediately#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/06\/muhammed-buhari-1140x570-1.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Buhari\",\"SERAP\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-told-to-reverse-hate-speech-fine-immediately#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-told-to-reverse-hate-speech-fine-immediately\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-told-to-reverse-hate-speech-fine-immediately\",\"name\":\"Buhari told to reverse hate speech fine immediately - 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