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====Greece==== | |||
The 14th article of the [[Constitution of Greece|Greek Constitution]] guarantees the freedom of speech, of expression and of the [[News media|press]] for all but with certain restrictions or exceptions; for example although it generally forbids any preemptive or after the fact censorship, it allows public prosecutors ({{lang-el|εισαγγελείς}}) to order a confiscation of press (or other) publications (after having been published, not before) when the latter:<ref>{{cite web|script-title=el:'Αρθρο 14: (Ελευθερία του Τύπου)|url=http://www.hellenicparliament.gr/Vouli-ton-Ellinon/To-Politevma/Syntagma/article-14/|website=Hellenic Parliament|language=Greek}}</ref><ref>According to said article (paragraph 14.4), within twenty four hours of such a confiscation, the public prosecutor is obliged to present the case to the ''Judicial Council'' (Greek: {{lang|el|δικαστικό συμβούλιο}}); the latter has then twenty four more hours to decide whether to allow it to continue or to have it stopped. Otherwise said confiscation is lifted automatically, ''[[ipso jure]]'' (Greek: {{lang|el|αυτοδικαίως}}).</ref> | |||
*14.3.a: insult Christianity or any other ''known'' (Greek: {{lang|el|γνωστή}}) religion, | |||
*14.3.b: insult the [[President of Greece]], | |||
*14.3.c: disclose information related to the [[Greek Armed Forces]] or to various aspects of Greek National Security, | |||
**have as a purpose the ''forceful overturning of the'' Greek ''System of Government'' (Greek: {{lang|el|βίαιη ανατροπή του πολιτεύματος}}), | |||
*14.3.d: ''clearly'' (Greek: {{lang|el|ολοφάνερα}}) offend public decency, ''in the cases defined by'' Greek ''Law'' (Greek: {{lang|el|στις περιπτώσεις που ορίζει ο νόμος}}). | |||
Revision as of 10:03, 11 October 2018
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Laws on speech
Freedom of Speech by country
The Netherlands
Article 7 of the Dutch Constitution (Grondwet) in its first paragraph grants everybody the right to make public ideas and feelings by printing them without prior censorship, but not exonerating the author from their liabilities under the law. The second paragraph says that radio and television will be regulated by law, but that there will be no prior censorship dealing with the content of broadcasts. The third paragraph grants a similar freedom of speech as in the first for other means of making ideas and feelings public, but allowing censorship for reasons of decency when the public that has access may be younger than sixteen years of age. The fourth and last paragraph exempts commercial advertising from the freedoms granted in the first three paragraphs.("De Grondwet". www.overheid.nl. 2011-04-29.)
The penal code does have laws sanctioning certain types of expression. Such laws and freedom of speech were at the centre of a public debate in The Netherlands after the arrest on 16 May 2008 of cartoonist Gregorius Nekschot. On 1 February 2014, the Dutch Parliament abolished the law penalizing blasphemy. Laws that punish discriminatory speech still exist and are occasionally used to prosecute.
The Dutch Criminal Code § 137(c) criminalizes(Weinstein, James (2011). "Extreme Speech, Public Order, and Democracy: Lessons from The Masses". In Hare, Ivan; Weinstein, James. Extreme Speech and Democracy. Oxford University Press. p. 58. ISBN 978-0-19-954878-1.):
- … deliberately giv[ing] public expression to views insulting to a group of persons on account of their race, religion, or conviction or sexual preference.
Greece
The 14th article of the Greek Constitution guarantees the freedom of speech, of expression and of the press for all but with certain restrictions or exceptions; for example although it generally forbids any preemptive or after the fact censorship, it allows public prosecutors (Template:Lang-el) to order a confiscation of press (or other) publications (after having been published, not before) when the latter:[1][2]
- 14.3.a: insult Christianity or any other known (Greek: Template:Lang) religion,
- 14.3.b: insult the President of Greece,
- 14.3.c: disclose information related to the Greek Armed Forces or to various aspects of Greek National Security,
- have as a purpose the forceful overturning of the Greek System of Government (Greek: Template:Lang),
- 14.3.d: clearly (Greek: Template:Lang) offend public decency, in the cases defined by Greek Law (Greek: Template:Lang).
- ↑ Template:Cite web
- ↑ According to said article (paragraph 14.4), within twenty four hours of such a confiscation, the public prosecutor is obliged to present the case to the Judicial Council (Greek: Template:Lang); the latter has then twenty four more hours to decide whether to allow it to continue or to have it stopped. Otherwise said confiscation is lifted automatically, ipso jure (Greek: Template:Lang).