Ghana's free speech debate: Where should the law draw the line?
Lawyer becomes part of the story Baffour Awuah, the MP for Manhyia South, became part of that debate after EOCO officers attempted to arrest him at the High Court on 23 September.
However, beyond the dispute over the attempted arrest lies a larger question confronting Ghana: where should the line be drawn between tackling potentially harmful or false information and protecting freedom of expression?
For Ghana, the debate is therefore becoming less about whether speech should have limits than about where those limits should lie, and how they should be enforced without unnecessarily narrowing the space for legitimate criticism and political debate.
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