Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas – State-run Ecuador TV is the latest government body to sue embattled journalist Emilio Palacio

More on the case in the country where the Chevron Ecuador trial has taken place…the owners and former editor of the country’s largest newspaper were initially sentenced to three years in prison and ordered to pay $40 million in fines for libel against President Rafael Correa:

Soon after a judge suspended Emilio Palacio’s three-year prison sentence and multimillion-dollar fine for committing libel against Ecuadoran President Rafael Correa, another judge announced he would hear a new case against the embattled journalist, this time for slander, reported AFP.

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