<html><head></head><body lang="en-US" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: initial;"> <div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Mwendwa,</div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; font-size: initial; text-align: initial; line-height: initial;"><br></span></div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; font-size: initial; text-align: initial; line-height: initial;">*IF* there's no such law, then there ought to be such a law.</span></div> <div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br style="display:initial"></div> <div style="font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Waithaka Ngigi<br><br>Alliance Technologies<br>www.at.co.ke </div> <table width="100%" style="background-color:white;border-spacing:0px;"> <tbody><tr><td colspan="2" style="font-size: initial; text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> <div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-color: rgb(181, 196, 223); border-top-width: 1pt; padding: 3pt 0in 0in; font-family: Tahoma, 'BB Alpha Sans', 'Slate Pro'; font-size: 10pt;"> <div><b>From: </b>Mwendwa Kivuva</div><div><b>Sent: </b>Tuesday, January 26, 2016 6:17 AM</div><div><b>To: </b>KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions</div><div><b>Cc: </b>Nani.Jansen@mediadefence.org; Jane Muthoni; Donald Deya; info@mediadefence.org; Waithaka Ngigi; ddeya@lawyersofafrica.org</div><div><b>Subject: </b>Re: [kictanet] BAKE condemns the arrest and intimidation of Kenyans online</div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-color: rgb(186, 188, 209); border-top-width: 1pt; font-size: initial; text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></div><br><div id="_originalContent" style=""><p dir="ltr"><br>
On Jan 25, 2016 3:11 PM, "Waithaka Ngigi via kictanet" <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Hi,<br>
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> Would like to ask, but don't those laws have a role to play in limiting propagation of offensive media?<br>
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> If anyone is arrested for sharing on social media, grossly photos of our dead soldiers; soldiers who are our brothers, sisters, husbands, wives, sons & daughters, then the fine and prison terms should be tripled from what they are as per the current law.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Hi Ngigi, </p>
<p dir="ltr">There is no such law.</p>
<p dir="ltr">When when CORD, Article 19, and KNHRC challenged the constitutionality of the Security Laws Ammendment act 2014, the court ruled that it's unconstitutional to prosecute anybody for sharing photos, or any information that may jeopardise the security organ's operations. The media was urged to be responsible and self regulate, but it's not criminal to share such information. This one is done and dusted. There is no way a competent court in Kenya will prosecute anybody for sharing such information. Yesterday the police could not find grounds to prosecute Yasin Juma. </p>
<p dir="ltr">The only provisions that stood in 2014 where those on surveillance; monitoring and interception of communication. </p>
<p dir="ltr">The prohibition on the publication or broadcast of images of dead or injured people, which are “likely to cause fear and alarm in the general public, or disturb the peace”, was disproportionate. The Court found that there was no rational connection between the limitation on publication and the fight against terrorism.The Court further agreed that the criminalisation of the publication or broadcast of information ‘which undermines investigations or security operations” by the national police and defense forces would have a chilling effect on freedom of expression. The Court held that the effect of the prohibition would amount to “a blanket ban on publication of any security-related information without consulting the National Police Service”.<br></p>
<p dir="ltr">And Nkaiseri and his ilk should be prosecuted for mistreating and harassing Kenyans. We should not live in fear, nor play into the hands and strategies of the enemy, Alshabab. </p>
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