The High Court of Malawi, sitting as a Constitutional Court, has delivered a historic judgment declaring section 200 of the Penal Code—Malawi’s criminal defamation law—unconstitutional, in a case brought by political activist Joshua Chisa Mbele. In a unanimous ruling delivered in July 2025, Justices Kachale, Mwale, and Mvula held that the provision unjustifiably infringed on […]

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