Internet writer faces jail for protecting sources

A MAN based on the Isle of Man, a small island between England and Ireland, is facing jail today after a local financier used the country's archaic laws to gag him and seize all his computer equipment.

An injunction also obliges him to reveal his sources, but Drower has refused to do so, which is why he might well end up in clink.

According to today's Grauniad, Roly Drower faces being slung into jail on the island after Albert Gubay took action against him on Man.

Gubay obtained a court order, according to the broadsheet, which placed a gagging order on Drower preventing him from even discussing the case with his family.

Drower put information on Manxman.com which Gubay objected to. As you can see, there's nothing now on the site, nor can we find anything in Google's cache. The CIA World Factbook, here, reveals that the island has a population of 74,655 and that it has no military force, as it is a crown dependency.

The Grauniad story is here. µ

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