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@allafrica Thu, 19 Mar 2026 06:50:10

Unmuted - Court Strikes Down Uganda's Speech Law

[Independent (Kampala)] Kampala -- Uganda's long-running battle over digital freedom registered a significant victory on March 17 when the Constitutional Court swept the Computer Misuse Act -- one of the country's most controversial speech laws -- off the books, dismantling a legal weapon critics say had, for years, blurred the line between cybercrime enforcement and the criminalisation of dissent.

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