a submission on the proposed changes

The content restrictions in the ICT Act already fail to meet international standards for restrictions on freedom of expression, but implementation of the approach proposed in the Consultation Paper would flagrantly breach Mauritius’ obligations to respect the rights to freedom of expression and privacy. [...] 6 Comments on Proposed Amendments to the Mauritian Information and Communications Technologies Act The proposals in the Consultation Paper would violate the rights to freedom of expression and privacy, which are guaranteed to Mauritians by the ICCPR27 and the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR).28 The freedom of expression as guaranteed under international law, including in Articl. [...] This, in turn, seems to be drawn from section 18(1)(m) of the ICT Act, which lists as one of the functions of the functions of the ICTA to “take steps to regulate or curtail the harmful and illegal content on the Internet and other information and communication services”.31 Some of the key definitions of this sort of content appear to be found in sections 46(ga) and (ha) of the ICT Act, which are. [...] 7 Comments on Proposed Amendments to the Mauritian Information and Communications Technologies Act These sections are problematical in terms of all three parts of the international test for restrictions on freedom of expression.32 They fail to pass the first part of the test because many of the terms used are too vague to provide sufficient guidance to allow those subject to them to regulate their. [...] 35 Report to the Human Rights Council of the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, 22 May 2015, para.