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THE TIMES has been forced to apologise and pay damages of £30,000 over a defamatory article that the complainant said showed hostility towards Muslim activists.
The newspaper also paid the legal costs of the Cage organisation and its outreach director Moazzam Begg over the story published in June, which was online for less than 24 hours before being pulled.
The Times had wrongly suggested that Cage – which aims “to empower communities impacted by the war on terror” – and Mr Begg were supporting a man who had been arrested on suspicion of carrying out the Reading knife attack on June 20 this year, in which three men were murdered.
Forty years on, TONY DUBBINS revisits the Wapping dispute to argue that Murdoch’s real aim was union-busting – enabled by Thatcherite laws, police violence, compliant unions and a complicit media
Claims that digital media has rendered press power obsolete are a dangerous myth, argues DES FREEDMAN
Home Secretary Cooper confirms plans to ban the group and claims its peaceful activists ‘meet the legal threshold under the Terrorism Act 2000’