In Thailand, companies and people in positions of power often use libel suits to intimidate and punish activists and critics.

Amongst the many issues in defamation law that continue to foster debate, some pertain to damages and would thus seem to call for a theory of reputational injury.

The Supreme Court declined on Tuesday to revisit the landmark First Amendment decision in New York Times v. Sullivan, rebuffing a request to take another look at decades-old precedent that created ...

But defamation law is also answerable to another moral value, namely, freedom of speech, that may be in tension with these pre-legal duties of care.

Opponents of criminal defamation statutes argue the law is often used in response to comments made against high profile officials and police, and therefore are a chill on free speech.

The National Assembly in the Republika Srpska (RS) on July 20 adopted amendments to the Criminal Code of Bosnia-Herzegovina's majority Serb entity that journalists and rights activists say would ...

The Constitutional Court of Bosnia-Herzegovina on January 18 ruled that amendments criminalizing defamation passed last year in Republika Srpska and signed into law by the majority Serb entity's ...

Chinese prosecutors have filed a lawsuit against an individual accused of insulting a fireman who died in the line of duty, the first such case since the country adopted a law in April that bans ...