UK court vindicates AJK PPP leader, son in major defamation case

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Azad Jammu and Kashmir’s senior leader Chaudhry Muhammad Yasin and his son Amir Yasin have won a landmark High Court defamation case in London against a social media broadcaster after a Royal Courts of Justice judge found that he published false, defamatory and damaging allegations on YouTube and Facebook.

Ms Justice Heather Williams DBE ruled in favour of the Yasins, finding that broadcaster’s online videos were entirely unfounded and had caused “grave and unjustified harm” to their reputations.

The Court awarded £260,000 in damages (£130,000 to each claimant), issued a permanent injunction preventing the broadcaster from repeating the allegations, and ordered him to publish a summary of the judgment on his social media channels to set the record straight.