Supreme Court rejects attempt at censorship by Attorney General

October 5, 2005

Supreme Court rules against injunction requested by Attorney General agaisnt local newspaper El Universal, saying
it was only an opinion piece and did not constitute defamation as the
AG claimed. Saying otherwise would have been censorship, but I
have to worry about the fact that the Court said the right to
inofmation was not absolute. This is the same argument used by the
People’s Defender yesterday saying
the right to private property is not absolute. Sounds like it is a way
of saying the law is always relative, to guarantee they may use it
differently in the future. The AG should be ashamed at this attmept at
censorship and if he had any decency he should resign. He is after all
the person that is supposed to defend the Law, but all he does is
defend Chavez.

This entry was posted on October 5, 2005 at 9:18 pm and is filed under Venezuela.

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