UK: BBC successfully defends itself against libel claims of an imam
by Ingo Beckendorf
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), the public service broadcaster in the United Kingdom, has won a libel lawsuit against an imam from London.
The imam, who is the leader of an Islamic Center in the urban district of Lewisham in London, brought a libel action against the BBC due to comments made by a BBC reporter during a live interview in 2013. The BBC's Sunday Politics programme included a feature on whether mosques were doing enough to counter extremism, including an interview between a BBC reporter and the imam.
During the disputed interview, the BBC reporter made the following…
