A critical press continues to operate, although the government has intervened for alleged inaccurate reporting, using the 1965 Public Order Act which criminalizes libel.

It has also been alleged that the PAP employs censorship, gerrymandering and the filing of civil suits against the opposition for libel or slander to impede their success.

In all such cases, the media outlets settled, and offered apologies for the alleged libel.

# As the essential precondition of being able to claim defamation ; that is, the alleged libel must have been published, and

His most notable works were a smart pamphlet in answer to Charles Palissot's scurrilous play Les Philosophes ( which procured him a short stay in the Bastille for an alleged libel on Palissot's patroness, the princesse de Robecq ), and a reply to Ferdinando Galiani's Commerce des blés ( 1770 ).

) But, court testimony in a libel suit, brought by one of the targets of the newspaper, alleged that Ford did know about the contents of the Independent in advance of publication.

In the 1980s, Janklow filed libel suits against the author Peter Matthiessen and Viking Press for a statement included in the book In the Spirit of Crazy Horse ( 1983 ), and another suit against Newsweek magazine for its coverage of the alleged rape.

Since 03: 20 CET on 7 April 2008, all France 2 programming has been broadcast in 16: 9 widescreen format France 2 later launched libel actions against commentators who alleged that the incident was staged.

In 1986, Celebrezze brought a successful libel suit against The Plain Dealer of Cleveland, based on an article that alleged that Celebrezze's campaign had accepted contributions from groups with organized crime connections.

These rumours were elaborated on years later in Leicester's Commonwealth, a Catholic underground libel against the Protestant Earl of Leicester satirically detailing his alleged enormities.

On 23 June 2009 The Pirate Bay announced a lawsuit against Tim Kuik on libel charges, claiming The Pirate Bay had nothing to do with the alleged DDoS attack.

On top of this a report in The Witness, based on Usuthu sources describing an alleged attack launched by John Shepstone of the Natal Native Affairs Department on the “ defenceless ” supporters of Cetshwayo at a meeting in Eshowe, led to Statham facing a libel suit brought against him by Shepstone.

* Jonathan Aitken's alleged procurement of prostitutes for Arab businessmen, their payment of his Paris Ritz hotel bill, and his subsequent conviction and prison sentence for perjury after the resulting libel trial in which he unsuccessfully attempted to sue The Guardian over the story.

For alleged libel on General Courtot de Cissey in this paper he was heavily fined.

The malady was popularly known as the `` Spanish flu '' from the alleged locale of its origin.

Doubleday was a cadet at West Point in the year of the alleged invention and his family had moved away from Cooperstown the prior year.

It is alleged, too, that at a time when the influence of Ambrose required vigorous support, he was admonished in a dream to search for, and found under the pavement of the church, the remains of two martyrs, Gervasius and Protasius.

After his death, the king was buried in the church which he had built ; his original tomb has been lost, while his alleged remains are preserved in the shrine where he was reburied after being declared a saint ; his saintliness, however, was never very widely acknowledged outside the bishopric of Liège where he may still be venerated by tradition.

Stylistic evidence suggests that the poem ( with most of Plato's other alleged epigrams ) was actually written some time after Plato had died: its form is that of the Hellenistic erotic epigram, which did not become popular until after 300 BC.

He was an older contemporary and an alleged lover of Sappho, with whom he may have exchanged poems.

At some point, he was alleged to have accompanied Swein on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, but proof is lacking.

A horrible reign of terror ensued, in the course of which the ex-tsaritsa Eudoxia was dragged from her monastery and publicly tried for alleged adultery, while all who had in any way befriended Alexei were impaled, broken on the wheel and otherwise lingeringly done to death.

Hipparchus, brother of the tyrant Hippias, was killed by Harmodius and Aristogeiton, who were subsequently honored by the Athenians for their alleged restoration of Athenian freedom.

She became a national figure in 1991 when she alleged that U. S. Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas had made harassing sexual statements when he was her supervisor at the U. S. Department of Education and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

Abd al-Rahman's alleged favorite son was his choice for successor, and would later be known as Hisham I. Abd ar-Rahman's progeny would continue to rule al-Andalus in the name of the house of Umayya for several generations, with the zenith of their power coming during the reign of Abd al-Rahman III.

The following month, Capp was charged in Eau Claire, Wisconsin in connection with another alleged incident following his April 1 lecture at Wisconsin State University-Eau Claire.

Although no sexual act was alleged to have resulted, the original charge included " sodomy.

The 1996 United States campaign finance controversy was an alleged effort by the People's Republic of China ( PRC ) to influence the domestic policies of the United States, before and during the Clinton administration, and involved the fundraising practices of the administration itself.

Clinton was subsequently criticized when it turned out that a pharmaceutical plant in Sudan ( originally alleged to be a chemical warfare plant ) had been destroyed.

His reputation among Protestants was at the time so bad that he was charged by Thomas Browne in 1643 with the authorship of the legendary-apocryphal heretical treatise De tribus Impostoribus, as well as with having carried his alleged approval of polygamy into practice.

The aim was to prevent and minimize the consequences of natural outbreaks of dangerous infectious diseases as well as the treat of alleged use of biological weapons against BTWC States Parties.

Among them, Guderian claimed, was Chief of the General Staff Ludwig Beck ( 1935 – 38 ), who he alleged was skeptical that armored forces could be decisive.

It was alleged that the directors had issued a large number of new shares purely to deprive a particular shareholder of his voting majority.

" This attack was the final straw that led to the declaration of war by Chad and the alleged deployment of the Chadian airforce into Sudanese airspace, which the Chadian government denies.

The petition gathered sufficient signatures, but was rejected on an alleged technicality.

This interpretation is supported by the negative character of all of the stories retold about Vortigern in the Historia Brittonum, which include his alleged practice of incest.

Dick himself is a major character, though fictitious protagonist Nicholas Brady serves as a vehicle for Dick's alleged gnostic theophany on February 11, 1974.

Richard is a major character in James Goldman's The Lion in Winter, in which there are references to the alleged homosexual relation between Richard and Philip of France.

He aroused the interest of Jerry Falwell in 1999 when Falwell alleged that the character was a " gay role model ".

The film features Lawrence's alleged sadomasochism as a major part of his character ( for instance, his " match trick " in Cairo, his " enjoyment " of killing Gasim ); while Lawrence almost certainly engaged in flagellation and like activities after the Deraa incident, there is no biographical evidence he was a masochist prior to that incident.

While official sources maintain that Lin planned and executed the alleged coup attempt, scholars such as Jin Qiu portray Lin as a passive character manipulated by members of his family and his supporters.

The assassination of a British citizen by alleged operatives of the Russian government using Polonium-210, a radioactive poison, as well as the alleged dioxin poisoning of the President of the Ukraine, has raised tensions between Russia and the West, with some commentators in Western nations regarding the poisonings as an indicator of the character and true intentions of the Kremlin.

The sequel, Romance of the Harem ( 1873 ), incorporates tales based on palace gossip, including the king's alleged torture and execution of one of his concubines, Tuptim ; the story lacks independent corroboration and is dismissed as out of character for the king by some critics.

According to Eller, Gimbutas had a large part in constructing a myth of historical matriarchy by examining Eastern Europe cultures that she asserts, by and large, never really bore any resemblance in character to the alleged universal matriarchy suggested by Gimbutas and Graves.

On Saturday September 7, 1912, at a gathering of one of the local black churches in downtown Cumming, Grant Smith, a local black preacher, publicly questioned the character of the alleged victim.

The events surrounding the alleged incident have met with sharp criticism, with local news agencies ignoring it as an attempt to belittle the character of the Muslims, and thus reinforce the ruling of the zoning board.

When the " Luddites " emerged in the 1810s, his identity was appropriated to become the folkloric character of Captain Ludd, also known as King Ludd or General Ludd, the Luddites ' alleged leader and founder.

French researcher Daniel Dubuisson places doubt on Eliade's scholarship and its scientific character, citing the Romanian academic's alleged refusal to accept the treatment of religions in their historical and cultural context, and proposing that Eliade's notion of hierophany refers to the actual existence of a supernatural level.

) conducted character investigations of “ American communists ” ( actual and alleged ), and their roles in ( real and imaginary ) espionage, propaganda, and subversion favoring the Soviet Union — in the process revealing the extraordinary breadth of the Soviet spy network in infiltrating the federal government ; the process also launched the successful political career of Richard Nixon, and Robert F. Kennedy, as well as that of Joseph McCarthy.

Turning away from the Enlightenment conception of Greek myth as a reflection of a universal religion in its infancy, Müller placed the study squarely as the outcome of an encounter between the particular character of a people and a specific historical setting, where, in the broadest sense it has remained, though his convictions that the core of each culture is uniquely its own led him to deny the influence of Egyptian art on Greek art ,< ref > In his article “ On the alleged Egyptian origin of Greek art ” (“ Ueber

* One famous fictional alleged employee of the dead letter office is Bartleby, the eponymous character of Herman Melville's " Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street ".

He also brings to attention the fact that " Seneca avoids any direct allusion to Cordus's alleged Republican sympathies, whatever their true character may have been.

Although, after Keats's death, recognition of the merits of his poetry came slowly, by mid century, despite widespread Victorian disapproval of the alleged " weakness " of his character and the view often advanced " that Keats's work represented mere sensuality without substance ", some of his poems began to find an appreciative audience, including " To Autumn ".

In addition, an alleged new character design was revealed for the movie in an animation reel.

Kennedy concluded Hemingway's " obsession " with indistinct gendering was central to his character, a conclusion also alleged by the critic Mark Spilka and biographer Kenneth Lynn.

His character left City Hall at the end of the show's 4th season, taking the blame for an alleged Mafia link that the Mayor unknowingly had.

" Taaffe argues that the: " right-wing Labour leadership who usually hurl insults against the Marxists on the alleged undemocratic character of ' democratic centralism ' themselves actually practice an extreme form of ' bureaucratic centralism ', as the experience of the witch-hunt against Militant and others on the left in the Labour Party demonstrated.