Mr Jones has suggested that the newspaper was trying to pre-empt a judicial gag order by publishing first on-line.

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The public defender's office refused to disclose the costs, citing the gag order and attorney-client privilege.

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The Durban II conference is already configured to savage Israel and endorse a global gag-order on free speech about Islam.

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That scandal was under a total court-issued gag order that barred the local media from reporting on it until last Thursday.

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When the gag order was revoked last Thursday, Israelis - and any foreigners who were interested - learned that Anat Kamm, a reporter hired by the Walla Web portal when it was partly owned by Haaretz, had been under house arrest for four months.

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It's unclear whether Apple (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) has put a gag order on application developers like Stitcher, or if everyone is genuinely confused about the apps the computer giant will distribute for its iPhone and iPod Touch at its new Apps Store inside iTunes.

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And the Shin Bet gave Haaretz the rope with which to hang it by requesting a gag order in order to give Blau more time to do the right thing - in spite of the fact that he had already demonstrated his bad faith and flagrant contempt for the law.

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The order was later changed and Carter-Ruck said there was "no question of Trafigura seeking to 'gag' the media from reporting parliamentary proceedings".

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