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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