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Angolan Journalist Prosecuted for Claiming Human Rights Abuses in Mining Industry
Rafael Marques has described Angola’s diamond mining industry as being plagued by murders, beatings, and arbitrary detentions and filed a
Danish pharmaceutical company challenges Indian media report on drug
The drug, “Deanxit”, was officially approved for use in India 14 years ago and has been on sale ever since.
News website blocked for “subjective” reporting
In the former Soviet republics of Central Asia, as elsewhere in the world, people increasingly look to the internet for
Palestinian broadcaster Wattan seeks justice following illegal army raid
MLDI is supporting Palestinian broadcaster Wattan TV in a court action for compensation and the return of equipment and financial
Latvian journalist in criminal court for comparing a politician to Baron Münchhausen
MLDI is supporting the defence of Latvian journalist, Gunta Sloga, in a criminal defamation case brought against her by Aleksandrs
Media Defence Intervention Helps Defeat Prior Notification Demand
MLDI helped win an ECHR ruling confirming that media are not require to notify those on whom they are publishing
Media Defence Leads Intervention at European Court to Protect Journalistic Sources
MLDI led a coalition of several interveners to urge the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights to
The Cost of Libel
Britain is notorious for the expense of defending libel claims and for that reason is increasingly attracting libel tourism –
Costly grain
In early 2008 the price of grain in Kazakhstan was rising, and journalist Almas Kusherbaev wrote an article in a
The murdered editor
In 2004 the former editor of the newspaper Point, Deyda Hydara, was murdered. Five years later, in June 2009, the
The dangers of internal security
There are few independent media organisations in Malaysia, so Malaysia Today, an outspoken online reporting outfit with a significant readership,
The Southeast Asian Media Legal Defence Network
A group of media lawyers in South East Asia have formed a network aimed at promoting learning and cooperation among