10 Facts About Gag order

Gag order is an order, typically a legal order by a court or government, restricting information or comment from being made public or passed onto any unauthorized third party.

In December 2018, International news sources have reported that Cardinal George Pell's conviction on child-molestation charges is subject to a gag order issued by Victoria, Australia court Judge Peter Kidd, suppressing coverage of the conviction by Australian media companies.

The gag order was ultimately subject to widespread criticism and publicity as the details of the case were reported overseas.

Gag order concerning the Prisoner X affair prevented Israeli coverage of the topic for more than two years.

The Gag order was imposed after a "compelling case" made by prosecutors, despite overwhelming media opposition brought by a legal challenge to the ruling.

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The first gag order was issued after Van Putten had published a report on tail biting in pigs in 1972, and had advocated that the pig's tail is a thermometer of animal welfare, which was discarded when the "temperature" became too high, i e the tails were docked rather than that housing conditions were improved.

The second gag order was issued in 1989 by Minister Braks, who did not want to hear about the adverse effects of confined housing of pigs.

The suppression Gag order denied Edwin Giltay to disclose the contents of the book, which delineates an espionage scandal within Dutch military intelligence that he witnessed first-hand, about obscuring evidence of war crimes in Srebrenica.

An attorney for Range Resources claimed in court that the gag order covered not only the adults in the family, but the children, then aged seven and ten years old, and that the company intended to enforce it.

Gag order pointed out that the law as such was a violation of the civil rights of the people of Puerto Rico.