Draconian laws still bar Libyans from speaking openly with foreigners, criticising the leader or setting up political parties.
The state of emergency is gone, even if other draconian laws remain.
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It also urged state governments, which control policing in India, to scrap draconian laws used by the police to lock up repeat offenders.
He said he hoped the ruling would lead to "a fundamental reassessment of our draconian privacy laws".
He stripped independent TV and radio stations of their licenses and intimidated reporters with draconian libel laws.
Chicago has draconian gun laws, while in Houston, any citizen with no criminal record can get a permit to carry a concealed weapon out on the street.
In a political climate where Latino workers face what some call racial profiling or draconian immigration laws such as in Arizona and Alabama, Gomez seeks to restore dignity and prominence to the honest laborer.
Draconian or daft laws corrode the very links to Muslim Britain that the government and police say they need to combat terrorism.
All sorts of businesses all over the world have good reason to be alarmed at the latest twists in the U.K. debate over the country's membership of EU. Many will already have doubts about investing in the U.K. because of its draconian new immigration laws which make it hard to bring in highly-qualified staff to make up for the U.K.'s chronic skill shortages.
Even the Draconian anti-drug laws in America have not stemmed the flow of drugs.
As the distinction between home-grown and foreign news blurs, even such draconian sanctions won't protect the contempt of court laws for ever.
Indonesia has laws designed to stop the burning of forest land, and supposedly imposes draconian penalties for damaging the environment.
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