Libels or Blogs

British libel laws are notoriously harsh and are often used to restrict legitimate freedom of speech, an example was David Irving’s disastrous court action against Deborah Lipstadt.

Now British libel laws are being wielded by Russian/Uzbekh billionaire, Alisher Usmanov.

Usmanov has already closed down Tim Ireland’s blogger sites, bloggerheads, apparently on account of an article written by Craig Murray about Alisher Usmanov.

Iain Dale covers it here.

HP has a discussion on the issues.

Even Drunken Trots are posting about it.

The Times and Indie have articles on the subject.

The article concerned is posted at Indymedia, which is in the public domain, you can read it for yourself and decide if it is libel or not.

Daylife has more.

I think that bloggers across the political spectrum should be united against Alisher Usmanov’s attempt to silence Craig Murray, and they should post on this story.

Update: I have included selected articles by Craig Murray here