Article
7 Fundamental Rights
A
Bhutanese citizen shall have the right to freedom of speech, opinion and
expression.
Dictionary
noun
1.
the power or right to express one's opinions
without censorship, restraint, or legal penalty.
2.
Freedom of speech is a principle that supports the freedom of an individual or a community to articulate their
opinions and ideas without fear of retaliation, censorship, or legal
sanction.
Freedom of speech and expression, therefore, may not be
recognized as being absolute, and common limitations or boundaries to freedom
of speech relate to libel, slander, obscenity, pornography, sedition, incitement, fighting words, classified information, copyright violation, trade secrets, food labeling, non-disclosure agreements, the right to privacy, the right to be forgotten, public security, and perjury. Justifications for such include the harm principle, proposed by John Stuart Mill in On Liberty, which suggests that: "the only purpose for which power
can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against
his will, is to prevent harm to others."[3]
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