Sentence examples for charge of insult from inspiring English sources

Rajab's lawyer said the verdict was unexpected because the charge of insult was normally punished by a fine.

We do not know yet.'' Last week the Princeton historian Jan Tomasz Gross – who wrote in September 2015 that Poles during the second world war killed more Jews than they killed Germans – was questioned by a prosecutor on the charge of "insulting the nation''.

In January, a 27-year-old woman in Mogadishu who reported that government security forces had raped her was convicted with the criminal charge of "insulting a state institution".

She is facing charges of "insulting members of parliament through paintings" and "insulting the Iranian supreme leader".

A decision in Istanbul's seventh high criminal court earlier this month reopened her prosecution on charges of "insulting Turkishness".

The bestselling Turkish novelist Elif Shafak was acquitted earlier today of the charges of "insulting Turkishness" brought against her under Article 301 of Turkish law.

Turkey imposes strict limits on expression and has prosecuted intellectuals, including the Nobel Prize-winning author Orhan Pamuk, on charges of "insulting Turkishness".

The Turkish author Orhan Pamuk, whose trial on charges of "insulting Turkishness" was dropped earlier this year, has won the 2006 Nobel prize for literature.

Lawyers hauled him into court on charges of "insulting Turkishness" - charges dropped amid ugly scenes earlier this year after international pressure - and one provincial official issued orders for copies of his books to be collected and burnt.

Around midnight, I learned that one of the detainees, who was apparently severely beaten, is now facing charges of "insulting a government official," a crime punishable by up to a year behind bars.

On Tuesday next week, Nabeel Rajab, a citizen of another Gulf kingdom with which Britain is building up closer militsary ties,, is due to appear in court on charges of "insulting a public institution" over Twitter.