Why A Controversial 1960 Law is Leading to a Crackdown on Online Speech in Ghana
A wave of prosecutions under Sections 207 and 208 of Ghana's Criminal Offences Act — provisions rights groups trace to colonial-era public order law — has put TikTok influencers behind bars and reignited a decades-old debate over criminal libel, free expression, and who gets to decide what counts as "fear and panic."
