I'm actually more sympathetic than, I suspect, most people here to the argument that judicial integrity requires a certain curtailing of press freedom while the case is in progress. I wouldn't want it for my country, and I think it's a bad idea, but I can at least understand the motivation and if someone laid out a principled defense of it, I'd give them a chance to win me over.

But the asymmetry of the UK case makes this completely indefensible, even giving that intellectual charity to prior restraint. The British tabloids get to scream in huge fonts on their front pages that this person is a murderer, but anyone trying to make a case the other way gets muzzled and threatened with prison time? No, no fucking way. Either muzzle all the press related to this case or none of it.