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A spokesperson from the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary said a complaint came in on June 14 about the “suspicious messages,” and the two women were arrested Sunday.

The pair appeared in provincial court Monday and are scheduled to return on August 2.

Their release came with several conditions, including a weekly phone check-in with local police. Nanna and Richardson were ordered to stay away from the St. John’s airport and from the two people they are alleged to have defamed, and they were ordered to stay off social media.

The tweets in question have since been deleted, but Nanna says she stands by her posts.

“I don’t back down from that one iota,” Nanna said by phone from St. John’s, where she said she was waiting for Richardson to be released on bail.

While her conditions of release strictly forbid the use of social media, “including but not limited to Facebook, Twitter and Instagram,” Nanna said she plans to keep posting her online church videos to Facebook.

“I don’t intend to let them silence me from preaching the gospel on Facebook,” Nanna said by phone Thursday.

She said she’s “absolutely not worried” about any consequences from the charges, referencing unspecified connections to “governmental leaders.”

Nanna’s online pages make a number of unsubstantiated claims about her association with prominent U.S. political figures.

Her Facebook and LinkedIn pages, and a website called The Lion Triumphs Ministries that names Nanna as a founder, all repeat an unproven claim that she has been a spiritual adviser to former U.S. president Barack Obama and former U.S. secretary of state Hillary Clinton.