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 ...

Criminal libel is usually associated with countries that lack First Amendment protections, but Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson has decided to use the little-known — and some say ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...