persons

"Now that is just as DEC but we have several other institutions that assist with drug-dependent persons, so that is not the full reflection of the extent of the problem."

The day prior, Johnson had responded to a question about the issue by stressing the need to “treat all persons with dignity and respect.”

Less than a day after initially saying he wanted to "treat all persons with dignity and respect," he switched to attacking McBride by saying, "a man cannot become a woman."

A total of 47 activists, opposition lawmakers and ordinary persons were charged for organising or taking part in the plan.

It made it illegal to "write, send, or share any information through a computer, which is likely to ridicule, degrade, or demean another person, group of persons, a tribe, an ethnicity, a religion or gender".