16
No.14
Cybercrimes
2015
(2) A person who contravenes subsection (1)
commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine of
not less than three million shillings or to imprisonment for
a term of not less than one year or to both.
Racist and
xenophobic
motivated insult
18.-(1) A person shall not insult another person
through a computer system on the basis of race, colour,
descent, nationality, ethnic origin or religion.
(2) A person who contravenes subsection (1)
commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine of
not less than three million shillings or to imprisonment for
a term of not less than one year or to both.
Genocide and
crimes against
humanity
19.-(1) A person shall not unlawfully publish or
cause to be published, through a computer system, a
material which incites, denies, minimises or justifies acts
constituting genocide or crimes against humanity.
(2) A person who contravenes subsection (1)
commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine of
not less than ten million shillings or to imprisonment for a
term of not less than three years or to both.
(3) For the purpose of this section, “genocide”
shall have a meaning ascribed to it under the Convention
on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of
Genocide, 1948.
Unsolicited
messages
20.-(1) A person shall not, with intent to commit an
offence under this Act (a) initiate the transmission of unsolicited
messages;
(b) relay or retransmit unsolicited messages , or
(c) falsify header information in unsolicited
messages;