1.   Police accused Ardzinov of insulting the authorities and campaigning against presidential policies.

2.   I accept the charges of insulting the authorities and apologize to all those offended by my work.

3.   Strict libel laws make it an imprisonable offense to insult authority.

4.   Three of them were tried by a Genoa judge on Monday and convicted of resisting arrest and insulting authorities and then released.

5.   Witnessses said the fundamentalists started insulting local authorities, including the emir of Kano Alhaji Ado Bayero who is considered close to the military regime.

6.   Witnessses said the fundamentalists started insulting local authorities and pelted with stones a policeman who approached them to persuade them to disperse.