UPDATE: 12/20/07 -- The First Amendment is in danger after NY State's highest court failed to protect American authors
from libel judgments awarded by foreign courts.
This documentary short film,...
UPDATE: 12/20/07 -- The First Amendment is in danger after NY State's highest court failed to protect American authors from libel judgments awarded by foreign courts.
This documentary short film, produced by the Moving Picture Institute, shows how Saudi billionaire Khalid Bin Mafhouz exploits the British legal system and sues for libel whenever he is the subject of a terrorism accusation.
Directed by MPI fellow Jared Lapidus, the film explains how Mahfouz filed a libel suit against Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld, author of Funding Evil; How Terrorism is Financed -- and How to Stop It. The suit was not filed in the United States, where the book was published and sold, but instead in London, where Mahfouz associates ordered 23 copies online. The judge ordered all copies of the book pulped, and ordered Ehrenfeld to pay the legal fees and damages, despite the fact that nothing in her book about Saudi funding of terrorism was ever disproved.
Ehrenfeld, however, is fighting back. In The Libel Tourist she speaks about her shocking experience of modern-day book burning by British courts, and the First Amendment lawsuit she filed against Mahfouz. Unfortunately, on December 20, 2007, NY State Court of Appeals sidestepped the First Amendment rights and protections.
Learn more about the case at www.LibelTouristMovie.com and at www.acdemocracy.org Learn more about MPI at www.thempi.org
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Well Kooodeal this is very interesting. You say that it is the responsibility of the injured to prove that they really have been injured? The evidence of the printed or spoken word is not enough?
There is a very fundamental dichotomy here. Freedom of speech is a right to speak what the individual believes to be the truth. However that belief can be extremely damaging to those against whom such truths are directed. Is it not merely justice that the defamed individual has the right to require his or her detractors to prove the accuracy of their truths before a Judge and Jury and if they are unable so to do be required to pay compensation for the damage done to his reputation?
Not in the USA, we do not let the rich silence us,by making us prove anything ,but so called injured party must show how he is injured.England protects the rich ,so we won't allow our citizens to be sued for libel there.Simple solution.
The Saudis are Wahabi's. This was a man made sect within the religion and was made with the help of the British along with a corrupt family called the Saud family from Najd, east side of Arabia. The British gave them so much power, they ruled the land and thus made a royal family. In Islam, you do not have royalality but a leader which is elected. Hence from that day, the Saudi's have been freiends of the Brits and Yanks and have been giving them oil. The story goes on....
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Hence from that day, the Saudi's have been freiends of the Brits and Yanks and have been giving them oil. The story goes on....