Sentence examples for guilty of libel from inspiring English sources

With courtroom sympathies on the director's side, the defendant was found guilty of libel.

Douglas was declared guilty of libel and incarcerated for six months.

After Zola was found guilty of libel and fled to Kent, his mistress and illegitimate children joined him.

In it he attacked the army for covering up its mistaken conviction of Dreyfus, an action for which Zola was found guilty of libel.

First, we get a prologue in which Blomkvist is found guilty of libel in an unconnected matter, involving another wealthy public figure, and sent to jail.

The trial of Zola began on February 7; he was found guilty of libel and sentenced to a year's imprisonment and a fine of 3,000 francs.

The former editor of the opposition newspaper Pursuit and another journalist from the paper were found guilty of libeling President Aleksandr Lukashenko and sentenced to prison.

He was also convinced that his fellow French diet guru Dr Jean-Michel Cohen was guilty of libelling him by telling a magazine the Dukan Diet "leads to serious health problems in some patients such as a strong rise in cholesterol, cardiovascular problems and breast cancer".

The three owners of El Universo - brothers Carlos, Cesar and Nicolas Perez - and columnist Emilio Palacio were found guilty of libelling the president.

They were guilty of "blood libel", she said.

23, three days after her letter appeared, and she was found guilty of criminal libel and fined.