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Iraqi Court Fines British Newspaper For Defaming Prime Minister Al-Maliki 90 days ago
(RTTNews) - A court in Iraq on Wednesday ordered Britain's Guardian newspaper to pay a fine of 100 million dinars or $86,000 for defaming Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki in an article published in April.
The article in question was written in April by local Iraqi reporter Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, and it quoted three unnamed Iraqi intelligence officials as saying that the Iraqi Prime Minister was becoming increasingly autocratic in running the country's affairs.
Wednesday's court ruling came after the Iraqi intelligence service filed a complaint in the court against the contents of the article published in the Guardian.
The ruling was based on evidence provided by a five-member expert panel, which argued that Iraqi law prohibits foreigners from publishing articles critical of the country's prime minister or president. The panel's advice, however, appeared to overlook the fact that Abdul-Ahad is an Iraqi citizen.
Following Wednesday's court ruling, Guardian's editor Alan Rusbridger described it as a "dismaying development" that threatened the creation of a free Iraq. He stressed that the newspaper would "vigorously contest" the verdict.
"Prime minister Maliki is trying to construct a new, free Iraq," Rusbridger said. "Freedom means little without free speech - and means even less if a head of state tries to use the law of libel to punish criticism or dissent."
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