Sometimes in January this year, bloggers were arrested in their numbers for ‘misuse of licensed telecommunication device’.
The charge attracted a penalty of a fine not exceeding Kes 50,000 or imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months, or to both.
High Court Judge Mumbi Ngugi yesterday declared the controversial section in the Kenya Information and Communications Act as unconstitutional.
In her ruling, the judge said the act too broad, vague and that it violated certain provisions of the constitution.
Bloggers can now breathe easy following the high court ruling.
Credit: Daily Nation
