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 ...

In December 2018, the ACLU filed a lawsuit challenging New Hampshire’s law against criminal defamation on behalf of a man arrested for insulting police online. Twenty-five states have laws that make ...

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, ...

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 ...

Breaking: The U.S. Court of Appeals has blocked enforcement of a 91 tear-old criminal libel law in North Carolina, a victory for Attorney General Josh Stein and campaign associates who could have ...

A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Femi Falana on Tuesday, said that controversial human rights lawyer, Dele Farotimi has been arrested over an alleged criminal libel. In a statement by Mr. Falana, ...