Civil Code of the State of Eritrea, Personality Rights (Image and Correspondence)
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Commencement not set.
A comprehensive regime rule binding public and private bodies.
As of 7 September 2026.
What it requires
- Do not exhibit, reproduce, or offer for sale a person's photograph or image without that person's consent, unless the image concerns a fact, event, or ceremony of public interest or one that took place in public, or the person's notoriety, public office, or the requirements of justice, police, or a scientific, cultural, or didactic interest justifies the use.
- Do not divulge the contents of a confidential letter, electronic message, or other private communication addressed to another person without the consent of its author.
If you get it wrong
Criminal exposureNo
Private right of actionYes
What it reaches
Obligation class
Consent
What this law does
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Article 26 provides that the photograph or image of a person may not be exhibited in a public place, reproduced, or offered for sale without that person's consent. Article 27 excuses the consent requirement where the reproduction is justified by the person's notoriety, the public office they held, the requirements of justice or the police, a scientific, cultural, or didactic interest, or where the image concerns facts, events, or ceremonies of public interest or that took place in public.
Article 28 lets the person demand that an unauthorized exhibition or offer for sale be stopped, and lets the Court award damages, capped at the enrichment the user derived, with moral-prejudice damages available if the use does not stop once demanded.
Article 30 makes the contents of a confidential letter, electronic message, or other private communication inviolable: the addressee may not divulge its contents without the author's consent, though the addressee may produce it in judicial proceedings on a showing of a legitimate interest.
The Civil Code was issued by the Ministry of Justice on 15 May 2015; the source read does not state a Gazette-publication or commencement date, and a legal-research guide describes the 2015 codes' entry into force as unclear as against the still-cited Transitional Civil Code of 1991.
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Read the law
Civil Code of the State of Eritrea (2015), official English text hosted by WIPO Lex