102. The Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA) was created in 2001 to oversee the provision of radio and television broadcasting services. Its objects also include the preservation and promotion of the plural nature of Mauritian culture by ensuring that licensees include, in their services, programmes reflecting the linguistic and cultural diversity of Mauritius. A Standards Committee set up under the IBA is responsible for the drawing up of a code of ethics for licensees and a code of advertising practice. 103. The Code of Conduct for Broadcasting Services, in its Preamble, stresses on the upholding of the fundamental principle “that the freedom of all broadcasting licensees is indivisible from, and subject to, the same restraints as those relevant to the individual person, and is founded on the individual’s right to be informed and to freely receive and disseminate opinions.” 104. Broadcasting licensees may not broadcast “any material which is indecent, obscene or offensive to public morals or offensive to the religious convictions or feelings of any section of the population or likely to prejudice the safety of the State or the public order or relations between sections of the population. 105. The Authority has set up a Complaints Committee which considers and adjudicates, inter alia, on any complaint of breaches or anticipated breaches of the codes and unjust or unfair treatment or the likelihood of such treatment in a broadcast programme. Upon complaints made to the police, an investigation is carried out by the police and if charges are found to be substantiated, the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions advises prosecution. 106. The number of cases pertaining to acts of racial discrimination or incitement to racial hatred reported and prosecuted by the Police and outcomes thereof are as follows – Section 106 (outrage against public and religious morality) and section 282 (Stirring up racial discrimination) of the Criminal Code have been amended in 2018 and has been broadened to capture radio communication, and technology having electrical, digital, magnetic, wireless, optical and electromagnetic capabilities, and writing in different forms which includes writing by electronic means, communication in the form of speed or other sound. TRUTH AND JUSTICE COMMISSION 107. The Truth and Justice Commission was set up under the Truth and Justice Commission Act in 2008. It started its operation in March 2009. The Commission had, as its mandate in terms of section 3(2) made an assessment of the consequences of slavery and indentured labour during the colonial period up to the present. Section (4) of the Act made provision for the –  conduct of inquiries into slavery and indentured labour in Mauritius during the 37