Penal Code of the State of Eritrea, Violation of Privacy
Penal Code of the State of Eritrea (2015), art. 298 (Violation of Privacy)
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An enforcement supervision rule binding public and private bodies.
As of 7 September 2026.
What it requires
- Do not intentionally intercept, open, or otherwise interfere with a telephone call, letter, electronic message, or other private communication addressed to another person, without lawful authority.
- If facts from a communication not addressed to you come to your attention by mistake, inadvertence, or negligence, do not divulge those facts or derive a gain from them.
If you get it wrong
Criminal exposureYes
Private right of actionNo
Criminal exposure note
Violation of privacy is a Class 2 petty offence, punishable with a definite term of imprisonment of 1 to 6 months, or a fine of 5,001 to 20,000 Nakfas, set in intervals of 1,000 Nakfas; prosecution requires the victim to prefer charges.
Penalty structure
Fine range for the Class 2 petty offence; the same subsection also allows imprisonment of 1 to 6 months instead of the fine.
- Rule
- Fixed only
- As of
- 7 September 2026
- Minimum
- 5,001
- Currency
- ERN
- Fixed cap
- 20,000
What it reaches
Obligation class
Prohibition
What this law does
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Article 298(1) makes it an offence to intentionally, and without lawful authority, intercept, open, or otherwise interfere with a telephone call, letter, electronic message, or other private communication addressed to another person, or, having learned facts by mistakenly opening a communication not addressed to oneself, to divulge those facts or profit from them.
Violation of privacy is a Class 2 petty offence, punishable with imprisonment of 1 to 6 months or a fine of 5,001 to 20,000 Nakfas, set in intervals of 1,000 Nakfas. Article 298(2) makes prosecution conditional on the victim preferring charges. Article 3 of the Penal Code ties the Code's own entry into force to its publication in the Gazette of Eritrean Laws; the Code's own text does not state that Gazette date and carries no proclamation number of its own.
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Penal Code of the State of Eritrea (2015)
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