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Constitutional law

RLR -V.3-2019

Court
Supreme Court

The Supreme Court partly allowed a constitutional petition, striking down provisions on religious insult and public-official humiliation while upholding most family-related offences.

  • Constitutionality of criminal statutes
  • Freedom of expression
  • Freedom of press
  • Equality before the law
  • Family protection
  • Adultery and criminalization
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Constitutional law [2015] 4 RLR

Re INGABIRE

Court
Supreme Court
Case number
RS/INCONST/0002/12/CS

The Supreme Court of Rwanda dismissed Ingabire’s constitutional petition, finding one challenged provision already abrogated and upholding genocide-ideology offences.

  • Constitutionality of criminal statutes
  • Freedom of expression
  • Genocide ideology
  • Legal certainty
  • Abrogation of statutes
  • Constitutional-law
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