GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Jun 20, CMC – Chief Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire Friday ruled that criminal defamatory libel is unconstitutional and violates the enshrined right to freedom of expression as she dismissed the case of criminal defamatory libel against the New York-based Guyanese political activist, Rickford Burke.
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