51.   President Hosni Mubarak defended the law for the second time this week, saying he is committed to protect freedom of the press.

52.   The Clinton and Bush administrations defended the law in court.

53.   The conservative Family Research Council defended the law, calling it an effective way to keep children safe from online pornography.

54.   The governing parties defended the law.

55.   The government has defended the law as necessary to keep NGOs from cheating foreign donors.

56.   The government has defended the law as necessary to keep private groups from cheating foreign donors.

57.   The government defends the law as a means of keeping order in normally placid Malaysia.

58.   The government had defended the law saying it would make state officials, such as court judges and government ministers, less corrupt by making them richer.

59.   The government has defended the law as a necessary step to stop the spiraling violence.

60.   The government ran newspaper ads defending the law that it said would help pull the economy out of its worst downturn in years.