MediaGuardian: Guardian wins appeal against Iraq libel ruling
January 13th, 2011Posted by Joel Gunter in Editors' pick, Legal, Newspapers
The Guardian has won its appeal against an Iraqi court ruling which found the paper had defamed the country’s prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki.
The article in question, written by the Guardian’s award-winning Iraq correspondent, Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, described fears inside Iraq that the prime minister was ruling in an increasingly autocratic manner. It reported the views of three intelligence officers, and a range of others, who commented on the nature of al-Maliki’s rule.
Full story on the Guardian at this link.
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