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Editor of Tamil weekly held for past 11 days on criminal defamation charge
Sources News Release
http://www.sources.com/Releases/NR641.htm
Publisher: Reporters Without Borders
Date Written: 06/11/2009
Year Published: 2009
Resource Type: Article
Reporters Without Borders condemns journalist A.S. Mani#s detention in the southeastern state of Tamil Nadu on a criminal defamation charge.
Abstract: Reporters Without Borders condemns journalist A.S. Mani#s detention in the southeastern state of Tamil Nadu on a criminal defamation charge. Mani, who edits the Tamil weekly Naveena Netrikkan, was arrested in the city of Chennai without arrest warrant, on 25 October, as a result of libel suit by a local businessman.
#Mani is the latest victim of Indian laws that criminalise defamation,# Reporters Without Borders said. #Misuse of the laws governing defamation and slander pose a permanent dange...
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