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 ...

Man charged with criminal libel for comments he allegedly posted on Craigslist. Dec. 2, 2008— -- A Colorado man accused of posting comments about his ex-girlfriend on the Web site Craigslist has ...

This piece was published in partnership with The Nation. What if you lived in a country where you could be jailed for criticizing a public official? What if that country were the United States? In May ...

The decision of Director of Public Prosecutions Keriako Tobiko came as a relief to the public, journalists, and media houses who have faced criminal prosecution as punishment for publishing statements ...

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 ...

His Excellency President Julius Maada Bio has told journalists in Freetown that his New Direction Government is at an advanced stage in the repeal of Part V of the 1965 Public Order Act that ...

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 ...

North Carolina’s Attorney General Josh Stein has asked a U.S. Appeals Court to declare a 91-year-old criminal libel law unconstitutional. That court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the fourth Circuit, ...

(MISA/IFEX) – On 13 July 2001, police in Mpika, in the Northern Province of Zambia, dropped a criminal libel charge they had laid on Ernest Mwape, a freelance journalist, over a story he had written ...