Posts Tagged ‘Khalid bin Mahfouz’

Khalid bin Mahfouz dead at 60

September 3rd, 2009

Billionaire Saudi banker Khalid bin Mahfouz, best known in Britain for a series of libel suits and legal threats against reporters and authors who connected his businesses with terror funding, has died of a heart attack at the age of 60.
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Read Index on Censorship’s report on bin Mahfouz, The True Cost of Libel, here

Through the looking glass

June 15th, 2009

English libel law turns US protection for free speech on its head. Floyd Abrams considers how the UK became an international libel tribunal
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