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IPI Supports elDiario After Criminal Defamation Lawsuit by Singer Julio Iglesias

The International Press Institute (IPI) today outlines our support for leading Spanish online news outlet elDiario following the criminal defamation lawsuit filed by singer Julio Iglesias in connection with its reporting on allegations of sexual assault. The criminal lawsuit is a clear attempt to intimidate journalists and silence legitimate public interest reporting. It also represents a major test of the legal safeguards for media freedom and …

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The team of First Dates continues its work of presenting singles, also in summer. The popular format has become one of the most viewed of the Spanish TV grill, and its ten years in broadcast endorse it. A television adventure to which more and more diners come. So, recently, we had ... Continue reading "A singer boasts of her past in ‘First Dates’: «I slept with half that Julio Iglesias»"

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The complaint claims that the women in our videos are "professional actresses" and that their testimonies are a fiction. It is false. They are the same women who denounced Julio Iglesias before the Public Prosecutor's Office of the National High Court Julio Iglesias has brought us to court. Not with a civil lawsuit, like those that are filed every day against many media outlets. He has done so with a criminal complaint against five journalists o…

·Madrid, Spain
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The organization believes that resorting to criminal proceedings to respond to a journalistic investigation on a matter of public interest can have an intimidating effect on the exercise of freedom of information and reiterates the need to decriminalize defamation and slander in these cases. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) Spain expresses its support and offers its protection to the five journalists from elDiario.es who have been criminally char…

The Federation of Associations of Journalists of Spain (FAPE) has agreed to grant the injunction requested by the director of elDiario.es, Ignacio Escolar, against the lawsuit filed by singer Julio Iglesias. Iglesias accuses the newspaper of defamation and slander, as well as a crime against moral integrity, in relation to a series of reports published by the online newspaper, in conjunction with Univision Noticias, in which several of the singe…

(EFE).- The singer Julio Iglesias filed in the Spanish Supreme Court a lawsuit for “illegal interference in the right to honor and personal privacy” against the second vice president of the government, Yolanda Díaz, and requested that he be compensated with 50,000 euros for moral damage. Iglesias’ defense thus continues its legal battle against Díaz [...] La entrada Julio Iglesias sues Spanish vice president in the Supreme and claims him 50,000 …

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Confidencial Digital broke the news on Wednesday, July 22, 2026.
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