Libya: Law Restricting Speech Ruled Unconstitutional

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The court ruled that Law 37/2012 was an unconstitutional restriction on free speech.<br/> <br/> “Today, the Supreme Court of Libya has shown what freedom means,” said <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130625034627/http://www.hrw.org/bios/sarah-leah-whitson"><u>Sarah Leah Whitson</u></a>, Middle East and North Africa director at Human Rights Watch. “By declaring this law unconstitutional, it has affirmed free speech for the Libyan people, even for critical and controversial views.”<br/> <br/> This is the first judicial review of a law issued by the National Transitional Council (NTC), which has been governing Libya since Muammar Gaddafi’s fall in 2011. A group of Libyan lawyers challenged the law under the interim constitutional covenant, as well as international law. 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