LONDON – A lawyer representing the Saudi Embassy in the United Kingdom said a defamation suit filed by the King Fahad Academy against the Sunday Express newspaper in a London court was settled after the newspaper group agreed to pay 60,000 pounds in damages to the academy.



Saud Abdullah Al-Ammari, who is also a member of the academy's board of directors, said the amount would be paid to the academy and its former principal Dr. Somayya Al-Yousuf.



In a statement to the press, Al-Ammari said, “The newspaper has published an official apology and removed the article that triggered the lawsuit from its website. It also pledged to pay legal expenses incurred by the academy and Al-Yusuf."



The case was filed after the Sunday Express published an article in June 2011 on its print and Web editions that contained baseless allegations of extremism and anti-semitism against the academy and its principal, Al-Ammari said. — SG/SPA