Indonesian Magazine Editor Found Guilty of Libel
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A court on Thursday sentenced Tempo magazine editor Bambang Harymurti to one year in prison for defamation and "inciting unrest" in a case watched by press freedom advocates here and abroad.
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ALEXANDRIA, Egypt -- An Egyptian blogger was convicted of insulting Islam and President Hosni Mubarak and sentenced to four years in prison on Thursday in Egypt's first prosecution of a blogger.
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Indonesia's Supreme Court convicted a former state airline pilot on Friday in the poisoning death of a prominent human rights activist and sentenced him to 20 years in prison, a court official said.
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Ethiopia's former Marxist ruler Mengistu Haile Mariam is found guilty in absentia of genocide after a 12-year trial.
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A Turkish judge acquitted a prominent  author on Thursday in a case seen as a fresh test of freedom of  expression in the European Union candidate nation.
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A Chinese court on Friday upheld a  guilty verdict against a Hong Kong-based Singapore newspaper  reporter who was sentenced to prison for five years for  espionage, state media and his family said.
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A British Member of Parliament (MP) on Thursday won a libel action against Britain&#39;s Daily Telegraph newspaper which alleged the MP had received money from Saddam Hussein prior to the US-led war on Iraq.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia -- A court sentenced Tempo magazine editor Bambang Harymurti yesterday to one year in prison for defamation and inciting unrest in a case watched by press freedom advocates.
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The editor of Playboy Indonesia went on  trial on Thursday on charges of distributing indecent pictures  to the public and making money from them, which could carry a  jail term of up to 32 months.
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Victoria Beckham wins libel damages over a magazine claim that a US TV crew found her "picky and rude".
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An Indonesian court on Thursday acquitted two prominent reporters of libeling a wealthy businessman, the conclusion of a closely watched cased that is likely to encourage Indonesia&#39;s embattled press.
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JAKARTA The editor of Indonesia&#39;s leading news magazine was sentenced Thursday to one year in prison for libel. The sentence was greeted with derisive jeers in the Central Jakarta District Court and condemned
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A Turkish court on Tuesday acquitted a writer of insulting the country's founder amid calls from the European Union to change repressive laws curbing freedom of expression.
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James Soong, chairman of Taiwan's minor opposition People First Party, won a libel suit over President Chen Shui-bian's claims that he had met secretly with a Chinese official.
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A court on Wednesday found Muslim Abdul Muhid guilty of inciting murder during a demonstration last year against Danish cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.
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Media & professional: Footballer Steven Gerrard accepts libel damages from publisher of free weekly magazine.
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A website designer was found guilty Thursday of inciting murder during a protest by Muslims angered by cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.