Libel lawyer Paul Tweed claims book wrongly portrays him as covert agent for UAE
Libel lawyer Paul Tweed has asked the High Court to strike out a defence of truth being pleaded in a defamation case he is taking against a US publisher.
Mr Tweed claims part of an academic book entitled Subversion: The Strategic Weaponization of Narratives is defamatory because it falsely portrays him as a " Подривен, затулен сътрудник " на Обединените арабски емирства (ОАЕ).
Книгата е оповестена от Джорджтаун Университет Прес през 2023 година и написана от Андреас Криг, който преподава в King's College, Лондон.
Съдът е чул, че г -н Tweed твърди, наред с други неща. silencing voices in the West who are critical of the UAE.
It also falsely claims he is portrayed as a solicitor who uses his legal practice improperly to protect or advance the UAE political regime, he says.
The book also contains an argument about how certain countries use “decentralised networks of a variety of actors, paid agents, wilful pawns and sometimes useful idiots ” in order to mobili...
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