This page of the End Blasphemy Laws project, run by Humanists International, catalogues Zambia's blasphemy-adjacent statutes: Penal Code section 131, making it a misdemeanor punishable by up to one year of imprisonment to utter words, make sounds or gestures, or place objects with the deliberate intention of wounding a person's religious feelings; Penal Code section 196, letting courts bar publication of matter judged seditious, immoral or blasphemous; and Defamation Act section 8, which withholds privilege from the publication of blasphemous or indecent matter. It records no recent enforcement of these provisions.
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A specialist advocacy project that catalogues national blasphemy statutes with direct section-number citations to the underlying Penal Code and Defamation Act, stronger than a general encyclopedia summary because it quotes the operative statutory language, but not the statute itself or a government document, hence the middle tier. Citation
PublisherHumanists International, End Blasphemy Laws project
URLhttps://end-blasphemy-laws.org/countries/africa-sub-saharan/zambia/
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Source End Blasphemy Laws, Zambia Country Page
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