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WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 1987
ARE TODAY
CONCERNED
WITH
A
FUNDAMENTAL
FREEDOM,
"WE FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION, WHICH HAS BEEN ENSHRINED IN ARTICLE 19 OF INTERNATIONAL COVENANT ON CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS.
"AS
WE
ALL
KNOW,
THIS
INTERNATIONAL
COVENANT ENSHRINED IN THE SINO-BRITISH JOINT DECLARATION AND NO DOUBT ALSO BE INCORPORATED INTO THE BASIC LAW."
MR LEE SAID FREEDOM INFORMATION OR IDEAS THAT WERE
MATTER
INOFFENSIVE OR
A AS
THAT OFFEND, SHOCK OR DISTURB.
THE
THE
HAS
BEEN IT WILL
OF EXPRESSION
APPLIED
RECEIVED FAVOURABLY
OF
INDIFFERENCE,
BUT
NOT ONLY TO OR REGARDED AS ΤΟ ALSO
THOSE
"SUCH
ARE
THE DEMANDS
OF THAT PLURALISM,
TOLERANCE
AND
"
BROADMINDEDNESS WITHOUT WHICH THERE IS NO TRUE FREE SOCIETY.
MR
LEE
ASKED
THE
COUNCIL
ΤΟ
SERIOUSLY
WOULD
NOT
THEATRE AS
WELL
WHETHER
CONSIDER POLITICAL CENSORSHIP OF FILMS WAS REALLY NEEDED TODAY AND, IF ALLOWED,
THE IN
FUTURE BE WHAT SAFEGUARD COULD THERE BE THAT IT
AS THE PRINTED EXTENDED TO COVER TELEVISION, MEDIA?
THE
"IF ONE FREEDOM IS LOST TODAY, NO OTHER FREEDOM IS SAFE IN FUTURE, HE SAID.
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THE
EDITOR OF THE SOUTH A LAW JAYAWICKRAMA,
NOTED THAT SRI OF CENSORSHIP
MR LEE ALSO REFERRED TO A LETTER TO THE
TODAY BY DR. PUBLISHED CHINA MORNING POST LECTURER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG, IN WHICH HE
STAGE OF POLITICAL LANKA HAD PROGRESSED BEYOND
THE
FILMS.
OUT THAT
DR.
JAYAWICKRAMA
WAS THE ACTING MR LEE POINTED
TO ATTORNEY GENERAL OF SRI LANKA IN 1970; AND THE PERMANENT SECRETARY THE MINISTRY OF JUSTICE IN SRI LANKA FROM 1970-1977.
"PLEASE LET US TAKE HEED AND LEARN LANKA," MR LEE SAID.
THE FROM
EXAMPLE OF SRI
ON THE
INCOMPATIBILITY
CLAUSE
WITH OF THE GOOD RELATIONS
ON CIVIL AND POLITICAL COVENANT INTERNATIONAL THE ARTICLE 19 OF
SHOW THAT THE RIGHTS, MR LEE SAID: "IT IS FOR THE ADMINISTRATION TO
ΤΟ EXIST GOOD RELATIONS CLAUSE IS NECESSARY BEFORE IT CAN BE ALLOWED
THE SAID ARTICLE AS AN EXCEPTION TO THE FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION UNDER 19".
'USEFUL'
DOES NOT MEAN "IN THIS CONTEXT, THE WORD 'NECESSARY'
IN THIS RESPECT ALL 'REASONABLE' OR 'DESIRABLE'. THE LEADING CASES
A PARTICULAR SHOW THAT NO MATTER HOW USEFUL, REASONABLE OR DESIRABLE
CONCERNED, IT WILL BE RESTRICTION IS IN THE VIEW OF THE GOVERNMENT CONSIDERED TO BE AN INFRINGEMENT OF THE SAID ARTICLE 19 UNLESS IT BEEN ESTABLISHED THAT THERE IS 'A PRESSING SOCIAL NEED' FOR IT.
HAS
/"FURTHER, THE
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