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There should not be a secrets act which criminalizes all release of all classified information.
They must navigate an Official Secrets Act, which criminalizes the publication of classified information and a plaintiff-friendly libel law, which lacks American-style exceptions for public figures.
The Duma is considering a bill "on the protection of religious feelings of the citizens of Russia," which criminalizes blasphemy and includes the possibility of a prison term.
Human rights groups say the 1971 law, which criminalizes sorcery and recognizes the accusation of sorcery as a defense in murder cases, contributes to the violence.
In January 2014, Nigeria's then president Goodluck Jonathan signed a bill commonly known as the "jail the gays" act, which criminalizes same-sex relationships.
The court followed a remarkably similar path in its inconclusive decision involving the Child Online Protection Act, which criminalizes the commercial posting of sexually explicit material that is "harmful to minors".
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Such statutes, which criminalize oral and anal sex, are also called sodomy laws.
Tribe also represented Michael Hardwick in Bowers v. Hardwick, the 1986 case which criminalized sodomy (Tribe lost).
Another one is the Vagrancy Law (revised in 1961), which criminalize a person's housing status rather than behavior.
Some of the worst parts of the act, which criminalized certain speech as "sedition," were repealed after the war.
The new norm stops just short of the Soviet one, which criminalized gay sex, but it has exacerbated homophobia and physical violence against gays and lesbians.
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