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why do foreigners have the right to DICTATE our rules over US???
complacent or complicit!
Shortly before the legal case was brought, Mr Higgins's website Bellingcat had recently published a story naming businessman Mr Prigozhin - an ally of Vladimir Putin - as the man behind the Wagner Group.
He denied involvement until after the February 2022 invasion began, despite having already been sanctioned by the UK government over the group's activities in Libya in October 2020.
The journalist was personally sued in the UK for tweeting articles by his publication and other outlets. He believes the decision to target him rather than Bellingcat was designed to intimidate.

Note the 'personally'. Shady rich businessmen make it a habit to sue journalists in the UK for libel for writing about them - and not just their publications, the individual personally. Britain's libel laws are awful enough that, even if they don't succeed, it puts an enormous amount of stress on the journalists, and not just financial. That is the object.
Millionaire Arron Banks famously did it to Carol Cadwalladr for her reporting on his ties to Russia. She faced almost 1 million pound in fines. Luckily, she won, but it was an ordeal.
Higgins got a lucky break. Or rather, this should never have been allowed to happen. >

The government ought pay this journalist’s expenses. Case was without merit. Whoever allowed the exemption ought to go to jail as a collaborator. >

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was chancellor at the time, but "The prime minister’s official spokesperson said he “wouldn’t have thought” Sunak, who was head of the Treasury at the time, would have been aware of the decision." ...seems odd to me that the head of the Treasury wouldn't have been made aware of Yevgeny Prigozhins group being given special licences so he could override sanctions. >

This law was to keep UK journalists quiet , only because Wagner try a use it, do we talk about it.  UK has criminals,making the laws. >

Why would anyone actually give him time in court? Unless he's being executed for being a war criminal. That man does not deserve even the most basic rights.