Sentence examples for convicted of libel from inspiring English sources

Zola was convicted of libel and sentenced to imprisonment; instead he fled to England in 1898.

Mr Navalny has himself been convicted of libel over a tweet calling a United Russia party official a drug addict.

Zola was thereupon convicted of libel in a trial whose judge ruled nearly all the relevant evidence inadmissible and was forced to go into exile in England.

It was published in 1821 by William Playfair, a Scottish engineer, political economist and scoundrel: he was convicted of libel in England and swindling in France.

These people were convicted of libel because they told very big lies in print, falsely accusing Correa of crimes against humanity.

And I hope that the investigators will act just as objectively as this judge did today, and that I'll be so lucky as to have Officer Ratnikov be convicted of libel.

In 1852 53 he was convicted of libeling the apostate former Dominican priest Achilli.

In 1787 Gordon was convicted of libeling the queen of France, the French ambassador in London, and the administration of justice in England.

Larsson's murder mystery follows the travails of Mikael Blomkvist, an investigative journalist in Stockholm who has been unjustly convicted of libelling a financial baron.

By Macy Halford September 17 , 2008Larsson's murder mystery follows the travails of Mikael Blomkvist, an investigative journalist in Stockholm who has been unjustly convicted of libelling a financial baron.

But on Tuesday, he was fined 300,000 roubles (£5,000 $$8,400) by a court in the capital after being convicted of libelling a district councillor on Twitter.