This week, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed a bill shielding journalists and publishers from “libel tourism.” The vote on Monday slipped past the Washington press corps largely unnoticed. Maybe it was the title that strove chunkily for a memorable acronym: the Securing the Protection of our Enduring and Established Constitutional Heritage (SPEECH) Act. Journalists and press freedom defenders outside the United States did, however, pay attention to the legislation, which they hope will spur libel law reform in their countries.
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Free press advocates in Britain are looking to a bill stuck in the U.S.
Congress for moral support in the fight to reform England U.S. bill, the Free Speech
Protection Act 2009, is itself the product of those laws, which have made London
Saudi Prince Sultan bin Fahd bin Abdulaziz made an unexpected
phone call last week to a live talk show on a Saudi sports channel. The prince
made the angry call to Al-Riyadiyya from
The now infamous incident of
Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi throwing his shoes at President George Bush
became primetime news throughout the world. In the
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