A new Defamation Bill in England and Wales will offer greater freedom of speech, said Queen Elizabeth in the annual Queen’s Speech to parliament delivered on Wednesday. The new bill could end libel tourism, a practice where defendants sue media organizations in the UK because of the UK courts expansive concept of jurisdiction and its pro-defendant laws.
The Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina issued 36 indictments against an organized crime group based in Zenica, central Bosnia. The suspects are charged with damaging the state budget for US$2.2 million through tax evasion and money laundering.
At today’s slander trial at the Kentron and Nork-Marash Administrative Court, pitting the Word of Life religious organization against the newspaper Iravunk, the plaintiff stated that it was willing to seek reconciliation through the auspices of the Information Disputes Council.
The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), condemns the physical attack on Skai TV and Radio presenter Konstantinos Bogdanos. The reporter was attacked on 9 May 2012 in the Athens neighbourhood of Exarchia. He was later taken to the hospital to be treated for head injuries and a fractured hand.
Later this month, the eyes of the world will be focused on a shimmering glass and steel building newly erected on the shores of the Caspian Sea to welcome the pop stars and television crews from more than 40 European countries who will broadcast the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 spectacle.
Novruz Allahverdiyev, 40, lives in a mud house in the village of Chovdar, a small Soviet-era mining town in rural Azerbaijan. He is one of 800,000 displaced persons from the war with Armenia that battered his native Nagorno Karabakh region in the early nineties.
Yesterday evening, unidentified men swopped down and whisked away Artavazd Vardanyan, who had been staging a 7 day hunger strike outside the offices of the Central Electoral Commission.
The court case in which the Vanadzor office of the Helsinki Civil Assembly is suing RA Police Chief Vladimir Gasparyan for slander is scheduled to continue tomorrow at the Kentron and Nork-Marash District Court.
Manukyan labels the May 6 elections a “disgrace” and says they were conducted according to the principle “If he’s not caught in the act, he’s not a thief”.
There will be a victory celebration in Mashtots Park on Sunday, May 13, at 3pm.
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