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Jun 4, 2014 · The U.S. has a nearly-100-year-old law called the Espionage Act that some have argued can indeed be used to punish the media for publishing classified information, despite its apparent contradiction with the First Amendment. The law has been used to prosecute data leakers 11 times in the country’s history – seven times under President Obama ...
May 16, 2023 · Jails throw people together in overcrowded units that may be controlled by the most violent people in the room. ... As a prison writer, journalist and criminal justice activist, I try to ...
Jan 8, 2024 · BBC News NI crime and justice correspondent. A court has thrown out a libel case brought by Sinn Féin MLA Gerry Kelly. Mr Kelly had sought damages over two radio interviews given by writer ...
Jun 17, 2022 · Journalism organizations and human rights groups have called on Britain to refuse the extradition request. Supporters and lawyers for Assange, 50, argue that he was acting as a journalist and is ...
5 days ago · The most dangerous precedent in the case against Julian Assange is the idea that the U.S. government can decide how to define journalism. ... I could be thrown in prison for contempt of court ...
Dec 23, 2000 · A federal appeals court on Friday threw out the 1961 murder conviction of Wilbert Rideau, saying the celebrated prison journalist was the victim of racially biased selection of the grand jury that ...
Dec 3, 2019 · Committee to Protect Journalists, "Criminal Defamation Laws in North America," accessed Dec. 4, 2019 American Civil Liberties Union, " Map of States with Criminal Laws Against Defamation ...
