Analysis of the Prohibition of abuse of the Right to the Free Flow of Information from the Perspective of the International Human Rights System

 In the international human rights system, the right to receive and publish information is considered one of the basic human rights, but according to human rights documents, this right is not absolute and comes with conditions, criteria and limitations. The purpose of the current research is to find ways to prevent the abuse of the right to receive and publish information.

 This research is of theoretical type and the research method is Qualitative content analysis; The method of data collection is library which has been done by referring to documents, books and articles.

Ethical Considerations:

 In order to organize this research, while observing the authenticity of the texts, honesty and fidelity have been observed.

 The principle of prohibiting the abuse of the right; Whether as a part of the principle of good faith or the principle of harmlessness or as an independent principle, it limits the free flow of information and is an exception to the right to receive and disseminate information. Based on this, a narrow and precise reading of it should be given so that it does not play the role of distorting the freedom of expression. Under a general rule, the abuse of the right can be cited as a limitation of the right to receive and disseminate information when it is stated in the relevant laws and in accordance with the standards of democratic societies.

 The following article, considering the abstractness and fluidity of the concept of abuse of right, while trying to get a more precise approach to the concept of the mentioned principle, has reviewed criteria such as bad faith and deviation from the social goal of the right as the criteria of abuse of the right and proposed the criterion of "unconventional conscious damage" for this purpose. So from the point of view of this article, abuse of the right to receive and disseminate information occurs only when a person, organization or country behaves with full knowledge in the free flow of information in a way that leads to unusual damage to others.