Though none has been jailed, a number of them have been charged with the offence of hate speech or incitement to violence. What is considered hate speech? Hate speech may also be narrowly defined as speech or expressive conduct that constitute incitement to ethnic, racial (etc) hatred. According to guidelines for monitoring hate speech published by the National Cohesion and Integration Commission in 2010, a number of factors need to be taken into consideration when characterising what constitutes hate speech. The other law under which the offence of hate speech is punishable is Section 13 of the National Cohesion and Integrations Commission Act.

Source: The Star September 19, 2020 01:52 UTC