Kevin Williamson @ the Media Blog @ NRO had a good blog post yesterday re: "libel tourism," the practice of filing libel suits in jurisdictions that are more favorable to the complaintant. Williams cites recent instances in which a billionaire Saudi banker, Khalid bin Mahfouz, has filed libel suits in Great Britain against a number of books by U.S. authors. The books are controversial and are primarly about Islamo-fascism and/or the funding of Islamic terrorists; most of them link Mahfouz with terrorism either directly or indirectly.
Williamson's post also referenced a recent situation in New Hampshire and is encouraging the enactment of laws protecting writers from "meritless prosecutions by phony "human rights" commissions abroad."
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