South Korea’s Constitutional Court ruled that a controversial law banning the sending of anti-regime leaflets into North Korea is unconstitutional on Tuesday, two and a half years after it went into effect.

The justices deemed the so-called anti-leaflet law unconstitutional in a 7-2 vote. 

“Freedom of expression is the constitutional value that is the basis of democracy, and it is important to guarantee it,” according to the ruling uploaded on the court’s website. 

It adds: “The content of expressions limited by the clause subject to judgment is extensive and, as a result, freedom of expression is excessively restricted.”

The law,