43.129
Recommendation- Cycle
- Cycle 4 (2022 - 2027)
- Session
- 41 - November 2022
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- State under Review - Organisations
- AL (League of Arab States)
- AU (African Union)
- OIC (Organisation of the Islamic Conference)
- Recommendation
Guarantee and protect the rights to freedom of expression and of the press by repealing the articles of the Penal Code that criminalize expression and by ceasing the practices of censorship and discretionary sanctions against the written press and electronic media, in accordance with its obligations under article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and target 16.10 of the Sustainable Development Goals
- Recommending State
- Recommending State - Regional Group
- WEOG (Western European & Other States Group)
- Recommending State - Organisations
- OIF (Organisation internationale de la Francophonie)
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Freedom of the press
- International instruments
- Related document
- paragraph_number
- 179
- paragraph_extracted
43.129 Guarantee and protect the rights to freedom of expression and of the press by repealing the articles of the Penal Code that criminalize expression and by ceasing the practices of censorship and discretionary sanctions against the written press and electronic media, in accordance with its obligations under article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and target 16.10 of the Sustainable Development Goals (Switzerland);