Freedom of the Press/History/Country sources/Chad
What is the oldest written source in this country that mentions this right?
Chad
Chad’s 1959 first protected freedom of the press under Article 5: “the press is free, whatever its mode of expression may be. The conditions of the exercise of the freedom of the press are determined by the law”
Today, press freedom is protected under Title II, Article 28 of the 2018 Constitution: “The freedoms of opinion and of expression, of communication, of conscience, of religion, of the press, of association, of assembly, of movement, and of demonstration are guaranteed to all” (Constitute Project, Chad's Constitution of 2018) .
References:
1959 Chad Constitution: "Title I: Of the State, of Sovereignty and of the Public Freedoms," Constitution of the Republic of Chad 31 March 1959 (1959): 3-4 https://heinonline-org.proxygw.wrlc.org/HOL/Page?collection=cow&handle=hein.cow/zztd0003&id=3&men_tab=srchresults
2018 Chad Constitution: https://www.constituteproject.org/constitution/Chad_2018?lang=en