Mexico: Judge exonerates journalist but sentences writer in lawsuit stemming from book's publication

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"(ARTICLE 19/CENCOS/IFEX) - On 23 September 2008, more than four years after the beginning of legal proceedings, a Mexico City judge exonerated journalist Miguel Ángel Granados Chapa in a case brought against him by Congressman Gerardo Sosa Castelán. Judge Miguel Ángel Robles Villegas, however, sentenced writer Alfredo Rivera Flores to pay an as yet to be determined fine in the same case."