11.   Crime News reporter Elias Jack Kamanga is also in custody on the same defamation charges.

12.   Investigating Magistrate Saeed Mirza cleared Elias Abu Rizk of the defamation charges but ordered him to remain in custody.

13.   Mwanawasa said he had asked police to bring defamation charges against those spreading the rumors.

14.   President Hosni Mubarak on Monday defended a new law that sets prison sentences and fines for a wide range of defamation charges.

15.   Rusike, editor Trevor Ncube and his deputy Simba Makunike have pleaded innocent to criminal defamation charges that carry the penalty of a fine.

16.   The newspaper also faces criminal defamation charges for alleging last month Chiluba entertained a Zairean mistress.

17.   Two opposition politicians and an outspoken newspaper editor who accused Zambian President Fredrick Chiluba of misappropriating state funds faced arrest Monday on defamation charges.

18.   Two opposition politicians, an outspoken newspaper editor and a journalist who accused Zambian President Fredrick Chiluba of misappropriating state funds faced arrest Monday on defamation charges.

19.   Warnaco fired back a month later with a countersuit, which includes a defamation charge against the designer Calvin Klein himself.

20.   Warnaco fired back a month later with a countersuit, which included a defamation charge against the designer Calvin Klein himself.