The FTC also wants Musk to testify in connection with the probe, the Wall Street Journal reported.

He alleged the public prosecutor told them to fulfill the government's desire to put him on trial.

The poisonings have affected more than 5,000 students, mainly girls, since November, according to the authorities.

The ruling Georgian Dream party has already announced that it will support it.

The trial, which was initially supposed to start on 1 March and was postponed for a week, comes at a time when diplomatic relations between Algiers and Paris are particularly tense.

Nevzorov, who moved abroad after the start of the Ukrainian conflict, didn't have an immediate comment on the verdict.

If convicted of defamation under Article 434 of the Iraqi penal code, he could face up to one year in prison

The court documents allege that both Ayité and Kouwonou published and distributed “false news” on social media that was liable to “disrupt public peace.”

CPJ emailed PEMRA and called and messaged Information Minister Marriyum Aurangzeb for comment, but did not receive any replies.

Journalists’ safety has deteriorated in Guatemala in recent years and five journalists fled the country in 2022 because of intimidation or judicial persecution.

After his arrest, Shamsoddinnezhad was charged with “association and collusion with intent to commit a crime against the nation’s security.”

Journalists have paid a high price in this war. They are subjected to violence and abuses by the various armed groups in the field, they are liable to be abducted or killed and, when detained, they are mistreated and tortured.