A hearing is set to take place in a U.S. court today (March 24) in the lawsuit filed by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty against the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM) “to avoid irreparable harm” to the broadcaster over the withholding of its Congress-approved grant as part of the agency’s efforts to terminate RFE/RL’s funding.
The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia will hear arguments from both sides in the case starting at 2 p.m. local time.
RFE/RL is demanding that the USAGM, which supervises U.S. government-backed broadcasters such as RFE/RL and Voice of America (VOA), release $7.5 million to RFE/RL that covers the period from March 1 to March 15, the day the USAGM said funding from the Congress-approved grant for RFE/RL had been terminated.
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