The Applicants’ profession maintained as journalists that the making impugned it practically provisions impossible has affected for them their to freely disseminate information for public interest. Furthermore, the fear of being rearrested, prosecuted and tortured by the Defendant of those laws in future has forced them to remain in exile. Freedom of expression is a fundamental human right and full enjoyment of this right is central to achieving individual freedoms and to developing democracy. It is not only the cornerstone of democracy, but indispensable to a thriving civil society. Having reiterated the Courts’ competence on human rights cases, it therefore implies that this court in exercising its jurisdiction, has the powers to go into the root of the violation i.e. those (awe which the Applicants’ are contesting to establish whether or not they are contrary to the provisions of international human right laws on freedom of expression. Consequently, in view of its jurisprudence, this Court has the competence to examine the laws upon which the allegations are based to ascertain whether the laws and punitive measures are regular or in violation of the Applicant rights. 32