Tag: defaming

Former Thai PM Thaksin Shinawatra charged with defaming country’s monarchy

Former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra was granted release on bail hours after he was formally indicted on Tuesday on a charge of defaming the country’s monarchy in one of several court cases that have rattled Thai politics. Thaksin, an influential political figure despite being removed from power 18 years ago, reported himself to prosecutors […]

Trump ordered to pay $83.3M for defaming E. Jean Carroll

NEW YORK — A jury ordered Donald Trump on Friday to pay $83.3 million to the writer E. Jean Carroll over defamatory remarks he made about her while he was president in response to her rape accusation. U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan ruled last fall that Trump defamed Carroll by saying in 2019 that he […]