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It also accuses Ms Javadli of posting videos on social media in which "she insulted and slandered" her former husband as well as defaming the state and violating state laws.

Schmidt’s attorneys have called her legal filings a “blatant abuse of the judicial system” and a “transparent hit piece intended to smear and defame” Schmidt, according to court records.

After all, he has seemed to take special pleasure in spreading ugly, unfounded rumors about people, such as defaming Haitian immigrants by claiming they eat people’s pets.

Smart Shirts Ltd, a Hong Kong supplier of garments with customers in the UK, brought a claim for libel, alleging it had been defamed as its name was included.

But some commentators who weren’t right-wing made similar arguments, while ardently defaming the poor.