21.   Four newsmen who work for weekly newspaper The People are expected to appear in court on Friday to answer the defamation charges.

22.   A judge Monday summoned Pakistani opposition leader Nawaz Sharif to answer defamation charges against him by President Farooq Ahmed Leghari and Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.

23.   Anura Bandaranaike has declared he will file defamation charges against Ratwatte and his mother is expected to be a key witness.

24.   Cambodian authorities have withdrawn a suspension order on two local newspapers but instead have filed civil defamation charges, the information ministry said Tuesday.

25.   Three Zimbabwean journalists were fined Thursday on defamation charges for reporting that President Robert Mugabe had secretly married his former secretary during Easter weekend.

26.   Zimbabwe police last Saturday arrested Elias Rusike, chief executive of independent Modus Publications, executive editor, Trevor Ncube and his deputy Simba Makunike over criminal defamation charges.

27.   Last week Lyonnaise des Eaux said it was bringing a defamation charge against the magistrate, now a member of the European Parliament.