Sentence examples for prosecuted for libel from inspiring English sources

Zola was prosecuted for libel and found guilty.

Soon afterwards, the magazine was forced to close and its editor prosecuted for libel.

Mr. Kejriwal's main strength is that unlike a professional media organization, he is not afraid of being prosecuted for libel or of the wrath of politicians.

At the height of his fame and success, while his masterpiece, The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), was still on stage in London, Wilde had the Marquess of Queensberry prosecuted for libel.

Like Williams, he was prosecuted for seditious libel and blasphemous libel.

In November 1799, the Alien and Sedition Acts had left one Democratic-Republican newspaper functioning in New York City; when the last, the New Daily Advertiser, reprinted an article saying that Hamilton had attempted to purchase the Philadelphia Aurora and close it down, Hamilton had the publisher prosecuted for seditious libel, and the prosecution compelled the owner to close the paper.

The last led to a secret meeting of more than 20 senior judges to see whether Levin could be prosecuted for criminal libel; there was no prosecution, and his accusations about Goddard's vindictiveness, deceit and bias have relatively recently been claimed to have been justified.

Defoe was prosecuted for seditious libel and was arrested in May 1703.

William Sancroft, the archbishop of Canterbury, and six other bishops petitioned him against this and were prosecuted for seditious libel.

"If free speech and comment in a political memoir is to be suppressed then people will be entitled to ask: what system of justice prevails?" Judges such as Lord Justice Sedley have successfully prosecuted newspapers for libel and have sometimes complained that they are shackled combatants on issues of public controversy.

"If free speech and comment in a political memoir is to be suppressed then people will be entitled to ask: what system of justice prevails?" Judges such as Sir Stephen Sedley have successfully prosecuted newspapers for libel and have sometimes complained that they are shackled combatants on issues of public controversy.