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Channel 4 wins Muslim 'preachers of hate' case
by Richard Edwards
The Telegraph
May 15, 2008
https://www.legal-project.org/110/channel-4-wins-muslim-preachers-of-hate-case
Excerpt:
The Crown Prosecution Service and West Midlands Police will apologise "unreservedly" at a High Court hearing today for libelling Channel 4's Dispatches programme Undercover Mosque.
Legal sources said they will pay £50,000 damages and £50,000 costs for falsely claiming the documentary was "misleading" and would stir up racial hatred.
The documentary, screened last year, showed "preachers of hate" making remarks alleged to be homophobic, anti-Semitic and sexist.
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