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Zambian Businessman’s Lawyers Petition GoDaddy To Pull Down News Site

Categories: Zambia, Citizen Media, Law, Media & Journalism

Zambian citizen media website Zambia Reports [1] is facing legal threats from a local businessman, Rajan Mahtani, is petitioning GoDaddy [2], the website’s hosting company, to kick Zambia Reports off of its servers.

According to the Zambian Watchdog [3], a rival website, Zambia Reports has been accused of publishing defamatory articles on Dr. Mahtani, who is the founder of one Zambia’s biggest indigenous banks, Finance Bank and a chain of other businesses.

A letter said to have been written by Rajan Mahtani's US-based lawyers to GoDaddy.

A letter said to have been written by Rajan Mahtani's US-based lawyers to GoDaddy. Used with permission of Zambian Watchdog.

The US lawyers have that GoDaddy cease and desist from hosting Zambia Reports and remove its contents from GoDaddy’s servers.