{"id":479191,"date":"2022-01-21T16:07:35","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T16:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=10ab9577fc734ca22a6936f8b4ab657b"},"modified":"2022-01-21T16:07:35","modified_gmt":"2022-01-21T16:07:35","slug":"uk-abusive-slapp-case-concludes-against-investigative-journalist-carole-cadwalladr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/01\/21\/uk-abusive-slapp-case-concludes-against-investigative-journalist-carole-cadwalladr\/","title":{"rendered":"UK: Abusive SLAPP case concludes against investigative journalist Carole Cadwalladr"},"content":{"rendered":"News<div class=\"field field-name-field-rsf-chapo field-type-text-long field-label-hidden\"><div class=\"field-items\"><div class=\"field-item even\">Following a five-day defamation trial at the UK High Court, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) reaffirms support for investigative journalist Carole Cadwalladr, who is facing a vexatious defamation case brought by British businessman Arron Banks. The case could serve as a landmark test of the public interest defence, and has highlighted the urgent need for greater protections for journalists facing legal threats.<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\"><div class=\"field-items\"><div class=\"field-item even\" property=\"content:encoded\"><p>On 21 January, the High Court concluded a five-day trial in a vexatious defamation case brought by British businessman and political donor Arron Banks against investigative journalist Carole Cadwal<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/rsf.org\/en\/news\/uk-abusive-slapp-case-concludes-against-investigative-journalist-carole-cadwalladr\">RSF - RSS feed<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NewsFollowing a five-day defamation trial at the UK High Court, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) reaffirms support for investigative journalist Carole Cadwalladr, who is facing a vexatious defamation case brought by British businessman Arron Banks. The &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1349,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479191"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1349"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":479192,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479191\/revisions\/479192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}