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Section 127: A person who–

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(a) directly or indirectly, by the use of threat or force, violence, sexual harassment or otherwise, prevents the conduct of a political meeting, procession, demonstration or other event of a political nature or another person from attending or participating in the meeting, procession, demonstration or other event; (b) creates a material disruption with the intention of preventing a political party from holding a public political meeting; (c) impedes or prevents or threatens to impede or prevent the right of a representative of a political party to gain access, in the manner and during the hours prescribed, to voters in a particular area, whether public or private, for the purposes of conducting political canvassing or campaigning and of soliciting membership and support; (d) impedes or threatens to impede or prevent a member of the Electoral Commission, a representative of the Electoral Commission or any other person or organisation engaged in civic electoral education to gain access, in the manner and during the hours prescribed, to eligible voters in a particular area, whether public or private, for the purpose of conducting civic electoral education; or (e) conducts a political party procession along a public thoroughfare or a political party meeting or rally in a public place otherwise than on a date or at a time specified by the Electoral Commission in a campaign calendar published pursuant to this Act, twenty million leones or to imprisonment for a term not less than five

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