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Nairobi \u2014 The High Court in Nairobi has temporarily suspended the enforcement of a section of the Computer Misuse and Cybercrimes Act that introduced tougher penalties for cyber harassment — including fines of up to Sh20 million or imprisonment for up to 10 years.<\/em><\/p>\n Justice Lawrence Mugambi issued the conservatory order on Wednesday following an urgent application filed by gospel musician Dr. Reuben Kigame Lichete and the Kenya Human Rights Commission (KHRC).<\/p>\n The petitioners challenged the…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Nairobi \u2014 The High Court in Nairobi has temporarily suspended the enforcement of a section of the Computer Misuse and Cybercrimes Act that introduced tougher penalties for cyber harassment — including fines of up to Sh20 million or imprisonment for up to 10 years. Justice Lawrence Mugambi issued the conservatory order on Wednesday following an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":210944,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[6991,258,256,6185,6197,10826,2898,4688,430,257,11125,52632,254,10452],"class_list":["post-210943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-act","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-court","tag-cyber","tag-cybercrime","tag-harassment","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-penalty","tag-sh20mn","tag-south-africa-today","tag-suspends"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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