constituteproject.org PDF generated: 18 Apr 2016, 15:22 The law establishes the modalities for the exercise of these freedoms. • Freedom of expression Article 23 All persons have the right to freedom of expression. This right implies the freedom to express their opinions or their convictions, notably by speech, print and pictures, under reserve of respect for the law, for public order and for morality. • Freedom of press Article 24 All persons have the right to information. • Radio • Television The freedom of the press, the freedom of information and of broadcasting by radio and television, the written press or any other means of communication are guaranteed, under reserve of respect for the law, for public order, for morals and for the rights of others. The law determines the modalities of exercise of these freedoms. • State operation of the media • Freedom of assembly The audiovisual and written media of the State are public services the access to which is guaranteed in an equitable manner to all the political and social movements. The status of the media of the State is established by the law which guarantees the objectivity, the impartiality and the pluralism of opinion in the treatment and diffusion of information. Article 25 The freedom of meetings[,] peaceful and without arms[,] is guaranteed under reserve of respect for the law, for public order and for morality. • Freedom of assembly Article 26 The freedom of demonstration is guaranteed. All demonstrations on public roads or in [the] open air require the organizers to inform the competent administrative authority in writing. No one may be forced to take part in a demonstration. The law determines the measures of application. • Right of petition Article 27 All Congolese have the right to address, individually or collectively, a petition to the public authority which responds to it within three months. No one may be made the subject of discrimination, in any form that may be, for having taken such an initiative. Article 28 No one is required to execute a manifestly illegal order. Every individual, every State agent is relieved from the duty to obey, when an order received constitutes a manifest infringement of the respect of the rights of man and of the public freedoms and of morality. The proof of the manifest illegality of the order is incumbent on the person who refuses to execute it. Congo (Democratic Republic of the) 2005 (rev. 2011) Page 10