incitement

In a radio speech, President Lasana Conté of Guinea called on the citizens and armed forces of Guinea to engage in mass discrimination against Sierra Leonean refugees in Guinea. This allegedly resulted in numerous human rights violations against the refugees, including the widespread rape of Sierra Leonean women in Guinea. According to the complaint, Sierra Leonean women were raped as a way to "punish them for being so-called rebels." The soldiers and civilians used weapons to intimidate and threaten the women.

The Penal Code establishes penalties of six months to six years for those who in a meeting, public place, or through any means of dissemination or communication with the public, incite hatred against a person or group of persons because of their race, color, ethnicity, place of birth, sex, belief or religion, political or ideological convictions, social condition or origin or other cause, with the purpose of discriminating against them.

The defendant published numerous comments on his Twitter account, including the statements: “53 murdered by gender violence so far this year, they are few in my opinion since they are so many whores;” “in 2015 there were 56 women murdered, it's not a good rate but we did what we could, let’s double that rate in 2016, thanks;” “I have the explosives already prepared for this night to use in Sol, Happy New Year, Allah is great;” and “I've already abused her, you're the next” (attaching an image of a woman).

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The respondent made comments at a political rally regarding the consent of the complainant in Jacob Zuma's rape trial. Specifically, he opined that a rape victim would leave early in the morning, but the complainant in this case had stayed for breakfast and requested money for a taxi. The plaintiff, a gender justice organization, sued him for hate speech, unfair discrimination, and harassment of women. The court found that the respondent's comments were based on prohibited grounds as outlined in South Africa's Equality Act, specifically sex and gender.

In advertising, statements including gender and other types of discrimination are prohibited. The law defines “discriminatory advertising” as advertising that contains or uses discriminatory statements and/or images of gender, race, skin color, political, religious, and other beliefs, age, or other characteristics of a person and/or group of persons.