osRestriction of Freedom of Speech in Declaration on Human Rights in Islam with an Eye to International Documents

In the international documents of human rights, concepts such as protection of morals, public order, public health, public interests, others’ rights and reputation have been mentioned as restrictions on freedom of speech. In other words, no one is entitled to neglect the above-mentioned restrictions claiming that he has the freedom of speech. Declaration of Islamic Human Rights has adopted an approach other than that of other global and regional documents of human rights and has added other cases such as Islamic rules, respect to prophets and sacred things and what which may lead to destruction of beliefs to these restrictions to freedom of speech. Because of extending the field of restrictions on the freedom of speech in the Declaration of Islamic Human Rights, this declaration has a status different from other international documents; and thus, the field of restrictions mentioned in this declaration and the reason behind it should be explicated from the viewpoint of human rights logic. The present writing compares restrictions governing freedom of speech (mentioned in the Declaration of Islamic Human Rights) with other documents of human rights and tries to find the reason behind difference between restrictions in this declaration on the one hand and other international documents of human rights on the other.