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RABAT, Morocco (AP) - An appeals court on Tuesday upheld record damages imposed on a weekly newsmagazine in a defamation suit that some rights groups say the government is using to intimidate independent media.
A lower court ruled in February that Le Journal Hebdomadaire must pay damages of 3 million dirhams, or about $327,000, to the head of the European Strategic Intelligence and Security Center, a think tank in Brussels, Belgium. The court also fined the magazine $10,900.
The head of the think tank, Claude Moniquet, argued the magazine defamed him and the institute by running an article that he said questioned the integrity of a study done by the center.
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