BRITAIN: Galloway wins libel case

December 8, 2004
Issue 
609
World

On December 1, the British High Court ruled that the Telegraph had defamed former Labour MP George Galloway when it claimed that documents had been found in Baghdad alleging Galloway was in the pay of Saddam Hussein. The paper was ordered to pay £150,000, a large amount for a British defamation case. The judge said that the paper had not given Galloway sufficient time to respond to the allegations before "rushing into print" with them. It is a big victory for Galloway, who was expelled from the British Labour Party for his staunch opposition to the Iraq war.

From Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly, December 8, 2004.
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