14 The Declaration on the Establishment of the Power of the People and subsequent codes secure the right of the people to directly exercise their power and to partake in the management of public affairs. This legislation has defined mechanisms for enforcing this right in reality and ensuring effective exercise of the power of the people while banning any restriction likely to limit this practice and safeguarding the citizen on proceeding with it. It is not applicable thus in the Great Jamhriya that a citizen be punished for expressing his opinion via the basic people's congresses or in other direct democracy institutions. On the Libyan people exercising power in a direct way, all categories were spared the sufferings other peoples in the world had to go through, and who are still struggling for a minimum level of participation. By virtue of having the power of the people in place, the participation of all citizens in public affairs is safeguarded and the culture of democracy is further strengthened. Fifth: Right to Expression and Opinion Freedom of opinion and expression is one of the major human rights in which interest has been largely developed at present, thanks to multiplicity of means of accessing information that served to call forth human need to think, brainstorm and take action regarding issues and ideas brought up by such media. Cases in point are different newspapers, audio-visual broadcasts and modern means of communication spearheaded by the Internet. The right to expression was adopted in international human rights instruments as a basic human right entitling all persons to freedom of expression and opinion as well as to elicit, receive and broadcast news and ideas by any means. This is an indication of the right every person has to sound out his opinion, express his viewpoint and disseminate these opinions and ideas via respective mass media, including the right to freely access a wide spectrum of information and to transmit them in written or