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By Will Mamah Continued from last week It is no longer in doubt that the enabling laws and judicial pronouncements that endorse freedom of expression are not meant to be blank cheques.

There are limitations, meant to safeguard other people’s rights and to protect public good.

For instance Article 10(2) of the ECHR qualifies the freedom of expression under 10(1) by providing for series of issues, like state security, public health and other people’s freedom that may justify breach of free expression.

The article reads: “The exercise of these freedoms, since it carries with it duties and responsibilities, may be subject to such formalities, conditions, restrictions or penalties as are prescribed by law and are necessary in a democratic society, in the interests of national security, territorial integrity or public safety, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection of health or morals, for the protection of the reputation or rights of others, for preventing the disclosure of information received in confidence, or for maintaining the authority and impartiality of the judiciary.” The critical challenge in unde...

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The battle that they have to endure during each day of class breaks my heart.

When they return from school, I see the relief on their faces, the gratitude of finally coming home and ducking away from the judgments of their teachers, and in some cases, even their fellow students.

I also see the depression in their eyes.

I ask them how their day was, and they reply that it was "okay," but I know that the matter goes much deeper � painfully deeper � than that.

Back in 2001, one of my grandsons suffered a mental breakdown in his middle school classroom.

I took him to see a psychiatrist at the Child Guidance Center.

We discovered that he was suffering from severe Depression and Phobic Anxiety.

He was very unhappy in his new Mainstream Literature class and couldn't face the ongoing judgments and name-calling that his classmates were dishing out.

He would come home from school despondent, refusing to eat.

He would just crawl into bed and sleep until the next day.

He started to wear a blanket over his head, refusing to take it off, fearful that he was ugly to everybody.

(All the name-calling in school had lead him to this conclusion.) He even started having nightmares about being at school.

And then there were the voices in his head; voices that spoke in loud, sharp tones, criticizing him and debilitating his sense of self.

It was eating away at him.

And me, as well.

I was determined to get him the help that he needed.

I pleaded with the Individuali...

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- Summer events - Cinema Cultural agenda MARKETPLACE Business calendar Classifieds Real estate Jobs YOUR OPINION Letter to the editor NEWS Tallinn awaits dignitaries for Meri’s funeralMar 08, 2006TALLINN – The Estonian capital was bracing for a wave of statesmen and world leaders to attend the March 26 funeral of President Lennart Meri.

Among those expected are Finnish President Tarja Halonen, King Harald V of Norway and the Latvian and Lithuanian presidents.

The funeral will be held at the Kaarli Church in Tallinn.

Meri, who was president in 1992-2001, died on Tuesday.

He was 76.

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