US judge slashes $18m defamation award to $500

A US court has reduced the $18 million awarded to Ghanaian journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas in his defamation case against former MP Kennedy Agyapong to $500, after Agyapong’s lawyers argued the original amount was excessive. Anas had sued Agyapong for calling him a “criminal” and suggesting he was linked to a fellow journalist’s murder, following Anas’s investigation into football corruption. Despite the reduction, Anas plans to appeal, emphasizing the case’s importance for resilience among African journalists, while Agyapong claims to uphold integrity and truth in public life.

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