15 printed form or in a technical mould, however in terms of showing respect for the rights of others and ensuring protection of national security, public order and disciplinary norms. The Great Jamhirya has attended to the citizen's right to express his opinion by including this right and the related practice of its concretization in its baseline documents. The historic declaration of the power of people in 1977 of last century contains what is beyond expression in its traditional concept, when it conferred on the citizen in Libya the right to express his opinion on public affairs put forward to the basic people's congress. This was confirmed by the Great Green Human Rights Charter in its Article 5 providing for "the sovereignty of every individual in the basic people's congress to guarantee his right of expression in the open air". The Charter also stressed on shunning violence in imposing ideas and opinions. Article 19 of the Green Charter ensures for every citizen the right to creativity, freedom of thought, research and innovation. The Freedom Promotion Act provides for the protection of the citizen on exercising his freedom to express his opinion. Its Article 8 stipulates for the right of every citizen "to express his opinion and ideas and to speak them out in people's congresses and through mass media." The Act also banned "Invoking calls for ideas and opinions clandestinely." In practice, legislation governing and regulating media and press conditions allow every citizen to publish all that he wants to in newspapers, magazines and books; he as well has the right to express his opinion vis-à-vis issues projected in audio and visual broadcast. At the radio level, the Law has ensured for the Libyan citizen the right to participate in the discussion transmitted live in the radio of the Jamhirya. The Libyan citizen also has the right to participate in local broadcasts found in all municipalities respectively.