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Law on Broadcasting (2005, amended 2007)

Posted
June 25, 2008
Country
former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
Document Type
Primary Legislation
Topic name
Hate Crimes

Law on Broadcasting as promulgated in the Official Gazette 100/2005 and subsequently amended (Official Gazette 19/2007)

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Chapter XVI: Penal Provisions

Article 166

The broadcaster or any other legal person shall be subject to a fine amounting from 200,000 to 300,000 denars if:

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10)   transmits and retransmits programmes that are directed towards the violent destruction of the constitutional order of the Republic of Macedonia or towards initiating and calling for war aggression or exciting national, racial, gender and racial hatred or animosity (Article 69);

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