The Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) includes the Congress party, whose leader, Rahul Gandhi, has been convicted of defamation and barred from Parliament.
Maria Ressa, who founded the news outlet Rappler and writer Reynaldo Santos face six years in jail for libelling a businessman. Both have been given bail.
The prominent journalist Maria Reza has told BBC World News that she will fight the verdict finding her guilty of libel to ensure her government can be held accountable.
A court in Sierra Leone has charged two editors at the Independent Observer newspaper with seditious libel after they published an article comparing the President Ernest Bai Koroma to a rat.