SOME REFLECTIONS ON FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION
SOME REFLECTIONS ON FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION

Summary/Abstract: The right to freedom of expression is complex, with a special dimension not only on the geographical areas and the time periods, but also according to each particular situation. The freedom of expression may know certain limitations when it is necessary to protect another constitutional value, the rule of law, morality, health, human dignity or another right. Without freedom of expression, the right to freedom of conscience would be deprived of the outer form of its manifestation; hence, it would remain an infirm right. The legal state is inconceivable without the freedom of expression. Regarding the freedom of expression, especially the press freedom, although the European judge seems to put increasingly more in balance the mass-media representatives’ accountability and their obligation to provide accurate, well-documented information, in Romania the trend seems to be different, to tilt the balance more in favour of the freedom of expression to the detriment of other rights or constitutional values, such as human dignity.

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