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 &quot;inciting unrest&quot; in a case watched by press freedom advocates here and abroad.
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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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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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LONDON, England -- A British anti-war lawmaker has won a libel case against a newspaper who accused him of receiving secret payments from former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein.
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A U.S. jury on Friday found former media mogul Conrad Black guilty of multiple counts of criminal fraud and a single count of obstruction of justice but acquitted him of a racketeering charge.
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The first Rwandan Catholic priest to go on trial at the UN tribunal in Arusha is found guilty of genocide.
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An Indonesian court dismissed on   Wednesday a blasphemy case against an editor who published   controversial cartoons lampooning the Prophet Mohammad last   year, saying the prosecution used a wrong legal article.
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Bambang Harymurti showed no signs of being broken in spirit when a panel of judges at the Central Jakarta District Court found him guilty of libel and sentenced him to a year in prison on Thursday.
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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.
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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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MP George Galloway has won a libel battle and damages totalling Â£150,000 against the Daily Telegraph over claims he accepted money from Saddam Husseins&#39;s government.
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UK Member of Parliament George Galloway won his libel claim against the Daily Telegraph newspaper, which reported last year that the Scotsman was in the pay of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.
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A radical Muslim demonstrator was found guilty on Wednesday of two counts of inciting murder at protests in London last year against cartoons in a Danish newspaper which offended many Muslims.
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A Beijing appeals court upheld a fraud conviction against a Chinese researcher for The New York Times.
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The undersigned freedom of expression and press freedom organisations strongly condemn the decision of the Central Jakarta Court to sentence Bambang Harymurti, the editor of Tempo magazine, to a year&#39;s imprisonment for defamation.
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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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A New York jury found a former fashion magazine writer guilty on Wednesday of masquerading as a firefighter to get into an ex-colleague's home and sexually assaulting her for 13 hours.