Journalists
PORTLAND, Ore. - News organizations in Oregon have asked a Portland judge to release more than 1,000 files on suspected child molesters - records a jury used in April when it found the Boy Scouts of America liable for $20 million in damages.
TEHRAN, Iran - A lawyer says a Newsweek reporter has been sentenced in absentia to more than 13 years in prison and 50 lashes.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - James Turner Leeson Jr., a Nashville journalist whose recording of a broadcast describing the questionable execution of a black man convicted of raping a white woman in Mississippi led to a book on the subject, has died.
MINSK, Belarus - Four independent journalists in authoritarian Belarus said Thursday the state security service has interrogated them and seized their computers and documents as part of an investigation into a libel suit.
QUITO, Ecuador - A journalist facing a 3-year prison sentence for defamation accused Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa on Tuesday of orchestrating his prosecution as a warning that critics of the government will be severely punished.
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