Criminal libel is usually associated with countries that lack First Amendment-style protections, but Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson has decided to use the little-known — and some say ...

In December 2018, the ACLU filed a lawsuit challenging New Hampshire’s law against criminal defamation on behalf of a man arrested for insulting police online. Twenty-five states have laws that make ...

Ghana's former President, John Agyekum Kufuor, said that history had vindicated his government for the repeal of the criminal libel laws that were used to jail journalists. (MFWA/IFEX) – On 10 August ...

A U.S. Appeals Court has upheld New Hampshire’s criminal libel statute, one of the few in the country. Robert Frese, who had twice been charged with criminal libel, challenged the statute, saying it ...

Nowadays, for better or worse, everyone -- literally, everyone -- can be a publisher. Not because the First Amendment guarantees it, but because the Internet does. You simply create a blog or other ...

A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Femi Falana on Tuesday, said that controversial human rights lawyer, Dele Farotimi has been arrested over an alleged criminal libel. In a statement by Mr. Falana, ...

THE Commission on Human Rights (CHR) has recommended the amendment of provisions in the Revised Penal Code and Cybercrime Prevention Act that impose imprisonment as a penalty in libel and cyber libel ...