Cases

Ghannouchi v Al Arabiya News Channel FZ-LLC

Facts

The Defendant, an Arabic language television channel accessible by satellite receivers in the UK, alleged in broadcasts on 8 August 2005 that the Claimant, a Tunisian exile given political asylum in the UK in 1993, was an extremist Islamist figure linked to the terrorist organisation Al-Qaeda who faced deserved expulsion from the UK. There was no attempt to defend the allegations as true or privileged. Judgment in default of Defence had been entered in February 2007.

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