KB-2022-003483 - [2025] EWHC 1912 (KB)

On 31 October 2021, Mr Sabeel contacted the Defendant and asked if he wanted to interview him in respect of the allegations that he had made at the press conference. The interview took place the following morning and was posted on the Defendant’s YouTube channel and Facebook page that same evening.

Prior to their removal, the two videos were accessible to any user of the World Wide Web. The Claimants note that a screenshot of the Defendant’s Facebook page taken before the video’s removal, indicates that at that juncture the Short Video had 74,000 views, 254 comments and 1,700 likes. (The comments are not visible in the screenshot.)

In each of the videos, the Defendant is shown in the centre of the screen interviewing Mr Sabeel, who appears in the top right-hand corner of the screen. In the Short Video (but not in the Long Video) captions appear at the top and bottom of the screen. In terms of the excerpts from the Short Video set out below, Passages N and O are, respectively, the top and bottom captions that appear throughout the Short Video. Passages P and Q appear between 07:10 and 07:15 minutes into the Short Video.