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    8Compulsory Membership in an Association Prescribed by Law for the Practice of Journalism, AdvisoryOpinion OC-5/85 of 13 November 1985, Series A, No. 5, para. 70.9Handyside v. United Kingdom, 7 December 1976, Application No. 5493/72, 1 EHRR 737, para. 49.10Media Rights Agenda and Others v. Nigeria, 31 October 1998, Communication Nos. 105/93, 130/94,128/94 and 152/96, para. 52.11 See, Mukong v. Cameroon, 21 July 1994, Communication No. 458/1991, para. 9.7 (UN Human RightsCommittee).

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    12Article 2(1) of the ICCPR.13Ballantyne and Davidson v. Canada, Communication No. 359/1989 andMcIntyre v. Canada,Communication No. 385/1989, 31 March 1993, para. 11.3.14Hertel v. Switzerland, 25 August 1998, Application No. 25181/94, para. 50.15See, for example,Karatas v. Turkey, 8 July 1999, Application No. 23168/94, para. 52 (European Courtof Human Rights).16Note 8, para. 30.

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    Mavlonov v. Uzbekistan, 27 April 2009, Communication No. 1334/2004, para. 8.4.18See, for example, zgr Gndemv. Turkey, 16 March 2000, Application No. 23144/93 (European Courtof Human Rights), Commission Nationale des Droits de lHomme et des Libertes v. Chad, October 1995,No. 74/92 (African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights) andMiranda v. Mexico, 13 April 1999,Report No. 5/99, Case No. 11.739 (Inter-American Commission on Human Rights).19See, for example, Recommendation 2007(2) of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe on

    Media Pluralism and Diversity of Media Content, adopted 31 January 2007.20See Claude Reyes and Others v. Chile, 19 September 2006, Series C No. 151 (Inter-American Court ofHuman Rights) and Trsasg A Szabadsgjogokrt v. Hungary, 14 April 2009, Application No. 37374/05(European Court of Human Rights).

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    28The Sunday Times v. United Kingdom, 26 April 1979, Application No. 6538/74, para. 49.29

    Refah Partisi (The Welfare Party) and Others v. Turkey, 13 February 2003, Application Nos. 41340/98,41342/98, 41343/98 and 41344/98 (European Court of Human Rights), para. 58 et seq.30The European Court of Human Rights has often accepted such norms as meeting the provided by law

    part of the test for restrictions. See the Sunday Times, note 28, para. 47 and Observer and Guardian v.United Kingdom, 26 November 1991, Application No. 13585/88, para. 50-53.31In many common law countries, judges can issue a conviction for contempt of court in a mini-proceeding

    inside of the main proceeding, immediately after the allegedly contemptuous statement has been made, or

    by way of summary proceedings before the judge or court to whom or which the statements relate. The

    South African Constitutional Court has ruled that this is a breach of the right to freedom of expression. See

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    38(1983) 31 O.R. (2d) 583 (Ont. H.C.), p. 592.39Concluding Observations on Kyrgyzstans Initial Report, 24 July 2000, CCPR/CO/69/KGZ, para. 21.40Sunday Times, note 28, para. 49.

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    4525 November 1996, Application No. 17419/90, para. 42.4618 October 2000, Communication No. 736/1997, para. 11.4.47Ross, a teacher who had published anti-Semitic work, was removed from his position as a teacher and

    transferred to a non-teaching position.48SeeMukong v. Cameroon, note 11, para. 9.7 (UN Human Rights Committee).49R. v. Big M Drug Mart Ltd., [1985] 1 SCR 295, p.331.

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    50Thappar v. State of Madras, [1950] SCR 594, p.603.51R. v. Zundel, [1992] 2 SCR 731, p.733.52See also Principle 6 of the Siracusa Principles on the Limitation and Derogation Provisions in theInternational Covenant on Civil and Political Rights , 28 September 1984, UN Doc. E/CN .4/1985/4.53Note 23, para. 11.5.54Note 25, para. 46.

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    62Observer and Guardian v. United Kingdom, 26 November 1991, Application No. 13585/88, paras. 56-71.63Leander v. Sweden, 26 March 1987, Application No. 9248/81.64On 27 November 1997 the Swedish government officially recognised that there were never any grounds

    to label Leander a security risk and that he was wrongfully dismissed. They also paid him compensation

    of 400,000 Swedish crowns (approximately US$48,000).65See, for example, Thorgeirson v. Iceland, 25 June 1992, Application No. 13778/88, para. 63.

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    66See, for example, Lingens v. Austria, 8 July 1986, Application No. 9815/82, para. 39 (European Court ofHuman Rights).67Compulsory Membership, note 8, para. 46.68R. v. Oakes, [1986] 1 SCR 103, pp.138-139.69Compulsory Membership, note 8, para. 46.

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    the right or freedom in question.71

    2 September 1998, Application No. 22954/93, para. 59.72The Court has held that the margin is wider in relation to restrictions aimed at protecting moral values

    than restrictions on political speech (see Wingrove v. United Kingdom, 25 November 1996, Application No.17419/90, para. 58), but this is not the same as principles governing when it may be applied.73See, for example, Tolstoy Miloslavsky v. United Kingdom, 13 July 1995, Application No. 18139/91(European Court of Human Rights).74Of course there are exceptions to this. Thus, in Goodwin v. United Kingdom, 27 March 1996, ApplicationNo. 17488/90, the European Court of Human Rights was faced with an injunction against publication, and

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    See Bossuyt, M., Guide to the Travaux Prparatoires of the International Covenant on Civil andPolitical Rights (Dordrecht: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1987), pp. 398-411. See alsoFaurisson v.France, note 82, concurring opinion of Evatt, Kretzmer and Klein, para. 4.84The term advocacy of hatred in Article 20(2) is widely seen as requiring intent.85See, for example, Garaudy v. France, 7 July 2003, Application No. 65831/01 andNorwood v. UnitedKingdom, 16 November 2004, Application No. 23131/03. In both of these cases, the Court rejected theapplications as inadmissible on the basis of Article 17.86See, for example,Jersild v. Denmark, 22 August 1994, Application No. 15890/89,Incal v. Turkey , 9June 1998, Application No. 22678/93 andLehideux and Isorni v. France, 23 September 1998, ApplicationNo. 24662/94.

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