It is certainly worth a DOJ investigation to determine if there was sedition or conspiracy to commit sedition.
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Have students investigate the Alien and Sedition Acts (1798) and the Sedition Act (1917) and evaluate the actions of John Adams and Woodrow Wilson.
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The charge of sedition against Mr. Kumar should be dropped.
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Meanwhile, Malaysians continue to be targeted under the Sedition Act.
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The sedition law carries a maximum penalty of life imprisonment.
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Officially, Sheikh Nimr was executed for sedition and other charges.
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He has also been charged with sedition and computer crimes.
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A former university lecturer has also been arrested for sedition.
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The pair were granted bail after being charged with sedition.
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SEDITION CHARGE However, opposition figures say they are being targeted.
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The majority of these Catalan leaders were convicted for sedition.
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Yusuf Ruzimuradov, accused of sedition, was released after 19 years.
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Students and writers have been charged under antiquated sedition laws.
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You know, Adams did this whole Alien and Sedition Act.
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The charges against him, including sedition, carry the death penalty.
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The leaders are expected to face charges, including sedition and rebellion.
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In addition, he has been charged with sedition and computer crimes.
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But the judge said they could still face charges of sedition.
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But several government officials support his arrest under the sedition law.
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You have said that you are expecting a 10th sedition charge.
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Currently, 12 are on trial on charges of sedition and rebellion.
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He was ultimately convicted of sedition, transporting firearms and transporting explosives.
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Protests in 2003 sunk the sedition law and saw multiple officials resign.
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Under the Spanish warrant, all five faced charges of rebellion and sedition.
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Repressive colonial-era laws on sedition and libel also play a part.
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The Sedition Act, used to prosecute government critics, also remains in place.
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The number of activists and politicians charged with sedition has shot up.
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It also misstated the date when the police arrested him for sedition.
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China also wants Hong Kong to enact legislation against sedition and subversion.
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A court in Malaysia jailed an opposition politician, Tian Chua, for sedition.
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All together, it makes for a potent folk history of capitalist sedition.
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When he took office, he pardoned everyone convicted under the Sedition Act.
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Mr. Puigdemont could face sedition charges and ultimately a long prison sentence.
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He and other party leaders were later charged with sedition and terrorism.
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This year, Mahfuz Anam, editor of Bangladesh' largest-selling English language newspaper, was accused of sedition and defamation, while BNP chairwoman Begum Khaleda Zia was also charged with sedition for questioning death toll figures from the 1971 independence war.
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Zunar was charged with multiple offences under illiberal laws on publishing and sedition.
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"They said I will likely be charged under the Sedition Act," he said.
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They have been charged under India's colonial-sedition laws, and remanded in custody.
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The 12 defendants are charged with rebellion, sedition and misappropriation of public funds.
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Spanish prosecutors have charged most of the defendants with either sedition or rebellion.
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The authorities cracked down on Patel, who was charged with sedition in October.
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Nine activists were jailed last week on charges of sedition and computer crimes.
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After being convicted of sedition, she was sent to Seodaemun Prison in Seoul.
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All are accused of spying and sedition-related activities, which they have denied.
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Sedition is considered a crime against public order, while rebellion implies stronger actions.
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Just this October, nine of those still imprisoned were found guilty of sedition.
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Subsequently, Morales has been charged with terrorism and sedition by Bolivian government officials.
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But in 2016 the Ph.D. student spent 25 days in jail, charged with sedition.
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Newspaper editors who publish unfavourable articles have been charged repeatedly with sedition and defamation.
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"This sedition accusation is bullying him," Thu Saitta, an ally of Wirathu, told Reuters.
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The army's response has been fierce: 37 PTM activists have been arrested for "sedition".
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He faces arrest on charges of rebellion and sedition if he returns to Catalonia.
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Sheikh Nimr faced charges including sedition and was sentenced to death in October 2014.
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The Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 started us off on the wrong foot.
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Presidential spokesman Salvador Panelo said Duterte had no involvement in the police sedition complaint.
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Notably, the Sedition Act was passed on the eve of possible war with France.
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Journalists who dare cover any of this are being charged with sedition and treason.
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He is in custody on allegations of rebellion, sedition and misuse of public funds.
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As an example, the Sedition Act was introduced by the British government in 1948.
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Junqueras is in custody on charges of sedition, rebellion and misuse of public funds.
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He was being tried in court for sedition just days before he was shot.
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He was investigated by police for sedition when he returned home a year later.
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The treason and sedition provisions "predated a great deal of human rights," she said.
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The chief was also facing potential sedition charges, though they ultimately did not materialize.
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On Monday Madrid courts charged at least 20 separatist leaders with rebellion and sedition.
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Party leaders have been accused of sedition, which could lead to years in jail.
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His grandfather fought against British colonialists and was imprisoned for sedition against the queen.
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Pakistani officials have accused Ms. Ismail of sedition, inciting treason and defaming state institutions.
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And his government tightened the sedition law to ban discussion of sensitive communal issues.
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In 2013, he executed their uncle, Mr. Jang, on charges of corruption and sedition.
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"The sedition laws ... are still being used to target and silence activists," Pang said.
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Two other JNU students, who were also charged with sedition, later surrendered to police.
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They were convicted on a number of charges, including sedition and misuse of public funds.
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The regime claims that the "sedition" is over, but many Iranians still seethe with resentment.
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They want to defy the government's increasing use of the sedition law to gag artists.
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The authorities soon cracked down and he was held and charged with sedition in October.
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If Kumar is ultimately found guilty of sedition, the conviction can carry a life sentence.
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Far from loosening colonial laws, the government is wielding the sedition law with new zeal.
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What's next: The Spanish government is considering charging the 10 Catalans with sedition and rebellion.
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The central government has argued for sedition charges, but no one has yet been charged.
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Defendants face charges of rebellion, sedition and misuse of public funds, which they all deny.
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The station's managing director Alagie Ceesay was arrested in July, 2015, and charged with sedition.
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Sedition, strife, conflict and distress are approximate definitions, all of which can describe Iraq today.
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Mr Pravit now faces sedition charges because of his social-media posts criticising the government.
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Several commenters accused Mr. Trump of sedition or treason and demanded that he be punished.
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This may be better known as sedition, seeing as he was a top government official.
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It is ludicrous to trivialize treason and sedition as if they were mere political dissent.
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First is Sedition Act, second is penal code, third is Printing Presses and Publications Act.
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In September of 2012, political cartoonist Trivedi was charged with sedition by the Indian government.
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Nimr was arrested in 2012 and convicted of inciting sectarian strife, sedition and other charges.
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Under Spanish national law, the vote has made secessionist parliamentarians vulnerable to arrest for sedition.
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Many are now being prosecuted for sedition and rebellion and campaigned from prison or exile.
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A number of them have been imprisoned on charges of spying or sedition or both.
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The woman, Praphan Pipithnamporn, is awaiting trial on sedition and organized crime charges in Thailand.
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Its title, Acts of Sedition, refers to subversive acts by individuals against institutions of power.
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Historic protests The 2003 anti-sedition protests were a defining moment for the city's opposition movement.
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State prosecutors accuse him of sedition, and he faces arrest if he were to return home.
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Indian police charged 15 people with sedition last year, for the crime of cheering for Pakistan.
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Authorities in Pakistan charged Khadim Hussain Rizvi, the leader of an Islamist protest movement, with sedition.
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And he was to do away with repressive colonial-era laws, such as that for sedition.
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Al-Nimr was convicted of inciting sectarian strife, sedition and breaking allegiance with the Saudi ruler.
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Graver charges of rebellion and sedition, faced by the 12 now on trial, were not included.
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The federal government's use of 'alien' dates back to the 28503 Congress' Alien and Sedition Acts.
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He suppressed it by accusing its leaders of sedition, jailing some and forcing others into exile.
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John Adams, as president, signed the Sedition Acts into law and imprisoned a number of journalists.
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In 2012, a cartoonist was charged with sedition for posting a satirical drawing on a website.
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Nimr had been convicted of inciting sectarian strife, sedition and other charges following his 2012 arrest.
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That same incident also led to Catalonia's police chief, Josep Lluis Trapero, being investigated for sedition.
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A group of lawyers assaulted the students who came to court to face charges of sedition.
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Today another man was arrested under the Sedition Act for an article that he wrote online.
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Under Mr Johnson, such sedition is not acceptable, as this week's purge was intended to show.
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John Adams presided over an administration that imprisoned political opponents under the Alien and Sedition Acts.
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But, I have very decent friends who are supporters and they feel we are approaching sedition.
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Prosecutors have issued an arrest warrant for Morales on charges of sedition, terrorism and terrorist financing.
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Acts of Sedition continues at WhiteBox (329 Broome Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan) until November 19.
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The decree follows angry demonstrations across university campuses this week after a student was arrested for sedition.
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Going Further In the Op-Ed essay "What Passes for Sedition in India," Nilanjana S. Roy writes
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Three days later, the president of the university's student union was arrested on charges that included sedition.
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The sedition charge is related to his criticism of the government, not to his comments on Muslims.
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Jefferson refused to hire him after he was jailed under the Sedition Act for said political rants.
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Spain's state prosecutor has called for rebellion, sedition and embezzlement charges to be brought against Catalonia's leaders.
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A majority of the court voted to uphold the latest convictions under the Espionage and Sedition acts.
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Rights groups branded this a violation of free speech and the sedition charge was changed to corruption.
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Egypt has arrested an Al Jazeera news producer and accused him of "provoking sedition," Reuters reported Sunday.
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The thin-skinned response of John Adams to criticism was to sign the Sedition Act of 85033.
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Binayak Sen, a physician, was convicted of treason and sedition in 2010 and sentenced to life imprisonment.
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It also said it had started processing rebellion and sedition charges against Puigdemont and other Catalan leaders.
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Critics of religious authorities are often branded anti-Muslim; outspoken ones have sometimes been charged with sedition.
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Murillo has angered MAS lawmakers by threatening to unveil a list of legislators involved in alleged sedition.
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People have been arrested for making jokes on social media and cartoonists have faced charges of sedition.
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The former regional president is facing criminal charges of rebellion and sedition sought by Spain's chief prosecutor.
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Josep Lluís Trapero, appeared on Friday in the national court in Madrid to face accusations of sedition.
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He was charged with sedition in wake of pro-democracy riots in the capital Nuku'alofa in 2006.
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But sedition charges also come with lengthy prison terms, even if less so than those for rebellion.
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Jahabar, along with two other editors of the website, was arrested last year on suspicion of sedition.
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Criticism against the family or government is illegal and can result in a jail term for sedition.
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Forcadell and five regional lawmakers testified on Thursday on charges of sedition, rebellion and misuse of public funds.
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He formed military cells, and contributed to the killing of ordinary people and sedition in eastern Saudi Arabia.
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The rebellion, sedition and embezzlement charges carry maximum sentences of 30, 15 and six years in prison, respectively.
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The rebellion, sedition and embezzlement charges carry maximum sentences of 103, 15 and six years in prison, respectively.
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Carles Puigdemont is wanted in Spain on charges of sedition for declaring Catalan independence after an illegal referendum.
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Inside the station, Mr Thanathorn was charged with sedition, assisting criminals and taking part in an illegal assembly.
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George Washington and Thomas Jefferson routinely commanded prosecutors, and John Adams ordered the filing of Sedition Act cases.
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Lam has indicated she may revive efforts to pass a controversial anti-sedition law known as Article 23.
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Two other prominent journalists critical of the government are fighting criminal cases involving charges of sedition and defamation.
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It was the right that was suspicious, sniffing out Communists and scrutinizing public figures for signs of sedition.
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"Extreme vetting," he calls it, bringing the Alien and Sedition Acts and McCarthyism into the reality-TV age.
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Many of the Catalan political leaders were arrested on charges of sedition and rebellion after the independence declaration.
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Thomas Jefferson pardoned those still in prison under the controversial Alien and Sedition Acts when he became president.
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He's wanted in Spain for "rebellion, sedition and misuse of public funds," charges he says are politically motivated.
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There has been much talk of "sedition" inspired by the usual suspects: the CIA, Israel and Saudi Arabia.
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One is the British colonial-era sedition law that was brought to bear against Mr. Zulkiflee, the cartoonist.
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From Madrid, the region's secessionist drive is portrayed as an act of sedition deserving to be put down.
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The proposed legislation would have outlawed "acts" of treason, secession, sedition or subversion against the Central People's Government.
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Mr. Kim had him executed on charges of corruption, sedition and numerous other criminal charges in late 2013.
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Bolivia's government claims some of those in the embassy are wanted for crimes of sedition and armed uprising.
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"He added: "The US has caused wars, division, sedition, destruction, and the demolition of infrastructures in this region.
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In late February, a college at Delhi University arranged a seminar on nationalism, free speech, dissent and sedition.
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"This includes erasing sedition, separation and conflicts, which victimized us," said the archbishop, who was born in Qaraqosh.
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A computer crimes act and a sedition law have been used to imprison activists, human rights groups say.
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In 1980, under another military dictator, Chun Doo-hwan, Mr. Kim was sentenced to death on sedition charges.
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Acts of Sedition, put together on the fly, captured a moment in time before it became a reality.
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Junqueras is currently in custody pending a potential trial on charges of sedition, rebellion and misuse of public funds.
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Resumé: A former security secretary, Regina Ip resigned in 2003 after mass protests against a proposed anti-sedition law.
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The Catalans are being sought for different crimes, including rebellion, sedition and embezzlement for pushing for secession for Catalonia.
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Two leaders of the independence movement have been jailed on charges of sedition, to the fury of many Catalans.
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And the Sedition Act made it illegal to write or print anything "malicious" about the government -- especially its President.
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India's sedition laws, which date back to the British Raj, mandate prison terms ranging from three years to life.
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Twelve separatist leaders are currently appearing at Madrid's Supreme Court on a number of charges including rebellion and sedition.
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"Fending off sedition lies in changing behavior, building trust and regaining credibility," he added, without mentioning Qatar by name.
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They had not yet fled their village when Islamic State fighters stormed their home, accusing the husband of sedition.
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The former ministers, like Puigdemont, are being investigated on possible charges of rebellion, sedition, and misuse of public funds.
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The court also said it had started processing rebellion and sedition charges against Puigdemont and the other Catalan leaders.
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The Federalists under John Adams used the Alien and Sedition Acts to arrest their opponents, and violence was commonplace.
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On Monday, Spain's state prosecutor accused Puigdemont of rebellion and sedition for organising an independence referendum held on Oct.
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Eight months later, when the court heard another case under the Espionage and Sedition acts, Holmes's conversion was complete.
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The Revolutionary Guards said at the time that Ms. Zaghari-Ratcliffe was suspected of sedition but provided no evidence.
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So, in 2628, Adams implored Congress to pass the Alien and Sedition Acts, giving the central government unprecedented power.
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Critics of the junta have increasingly been hit with charges of computer crimes and sedition, according to rights groups.
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He hopes the government will abolish the Sedition Act, but says he is unsure if it will follow through.
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Earlier, a judge from Spain's national court ordered prison without bail for two separatist leaders, pending a sedition trial.
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Calling the demonstrations "the new sedition," the Revolutionary Guards commander sent his elite troops to Iran's most restive regions.
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Under the five charges, which include sedition and criminal conspiracy, Mr. Pashteen could face up to life in prison.
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The court sentenced nine of the former leaders to prison for sedition, as well as for misusing public funds.
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"The U.S. has caused wars, division, sedition, destruction, and the demolition of infrastructures in this region," Khamenei said Wednesday.
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When domestic enemies rear their head and seek to undermine the president and his lawful orders, that's called sedition.
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The government has blamed many violent escalations and deaths on unidentified infiltrators it says aim to stir up sedition.
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The caretaker government has accused three of them of sedition and electoral fraud and issued warrants for their arrests.
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They and seven other Catalan leaders face charges of rebellion, sedition and misuse of public funds, which they all deny.
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In 2003 authorities shelved an anti-sedition law that Beijing wanted to impose on Hong Kong, after large street marches.
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Another two leaders of pro-secession grassroots groups are also in jail while an investigation continues into suspicion of sedition.
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The Spanish government has indicted him for crimes of rebellion and sedition, among others, and issued a European arrest warrant.
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Students and democracy activists have also been prosecuted in military courts for campaigning against military rule under a sedition law.
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United States, a 85033 Supreme Court decision upholding a conviction under the Sedition Act for speech merely critical of government.
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He and four other former members of the Catalan government with him in Belgium face charges of rebellion and sedition.
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His administration has stepped up enforcement of the Sedition Act, which punishes anyone deemed to "excite disaffection" against the state.
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"Today, we can say it is the end of 'sedition 1396,' " Jafari said, using the year in the Iranian calendar.
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And last year, an amendment to the colonial era Sedition Act made "insulting or ridiculing" any religion a criminal offense.
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They and seven other Catalan leaders are charged with rebellion, sedition and misuse of public funds, which they all deny.
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Sedition laws were initially introduced by the British colonial government back in the 1870s to deal with Indian freedom fighters.
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His government has blocked unfriendly news outlets and charged a political cartoonist, Zulkiflee Anwar Ulhaque, with nine counts of sedition.
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Judges will now decide whether to charge them with rebellion, sedition and misuse of public funds for organizing the Oct.
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In 2016, he was arrested at an on-campus rally and charged with sedition for allegedly shouting anti-India slogans.
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Elementary school principals had received letters warning that they might face sedition charges if they opened their doors for voting.
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The government of Ms. Añez responded by issuing a warrant for Mr. Morales's arrest, charging him with sedition and terrorism.
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The 12 Catalan politicians and civic leaders are facing charges ranging from rebellion to sedition and misuse of public funds.
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The documents cited rebellion, sedition, misuse of public funds, disobedience and breach of trust relating to Catalonia's independence campaign concern.
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In today's D.C. Swamp, extreme disloyalty, dancing very close to sedition, is rewarded by the media and cheered by Democrats.
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Citizens also saw their rights curtailed with the Sedition Act of 1918, an extension of the Espionage Act of 1917.
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The performances took place amid the excruciatingly accurate, angst-laden installations that make up the group exhibition Acts of Sedition.
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The reduction in immigrants' rights codified by the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798, the restrictions on free speech established by the Espionage and Sedition Acts of 1917-18, and the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII were all policies born from fear, and all resound throughout history as stark contradictions to American values.
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As soon as the TV anchor starts shouting at a student, accusing him of sedition, the students turn the TV off.
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The court will also consider an appeal to release two separatist activists who were jailed last month in a sedition investigation.
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Spain&aposs state prosecutor said he would seek rebellion, sedition and embezzlement charges against members of the region&aposs secessionist government.
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A SECESSIONIST leader flies into exile, seeking protection after being threatened with a 30-year prison sentence for sedition and rebellion.
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Officials in Beijing saw this as nascent separatism, and hoped that an anti-sedition law would help to curb the tendency.
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Sanchez is one of a number of pro-independence politicians currently being held in a Madrid jail on charges of sedition.
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Seven of the 70 separatists elected on Sunday are either in jail or in exile on allegations of sedition and rebellion.
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It would have been inappropriate, for example, to propose abolition of sedition bill which was the prerogative of the home minister.
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He fled to Belgium as the government laid sedition and rebellion charges against him and took direct control of the region.
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The speaker, Carme Forcadell, and five regional lawmakers testified on Thursday on charges of sedition, rebellion and misuse of public funds.
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They are being investigated for sedition for directing a demonstration in Barcelona in September in which protesters destroyed three police vehicles.
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Puigdemont, living in Brussels since October, is wanted in Spain on charges of sedition and rebellion for spearheading an independence movement.
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Since February, the number of legal claims against him has climbed to 79 cases: 20073 for defamation and 17 for sedition.
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Since then, scores of lawsuits charging my father with criminal defamation and sedition have been lodged in courts all over Bangladesh.
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"Any critical comment against government policy does not amount to sedition," Soli Sorabjee, a former attorney general of India, told Reuters.
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A flurry of arrests followed, cementing Russian rule and making clear that lingering pro-Ukrainian views would be seen as sedition.
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The politicians could face 30 years in prison for the most serious of the potential charges, which included rebellion and sedition.
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Earlier this week, a judge from Spain's national court ordered prison without bail for two separatist leaders, pending a sedition trial.
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He called on lawmakers to instead appoint Jordi Sanchez, who is in prison in Madrid awaiting trial on charges of sedition.
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But after nine months, the government crushed the opposition Green Movement, and today labels any support for the demonstrations as sedition.
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That legislation — against sedition, subversion, secession and treason — would have allowed the authorities to conduct warrantless searches and shut down newspapers.
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He faces up to a year in prison and fines of up to $153,200, and is also being investigated for sedition.
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Spanish prosecutors now want the Belgian authorities to return Mr. Puigdemont to Spain to face trial for sedition rather than rebellion.
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Spanish prosecutors now want Belgium to return Mr. Puigdemont to Spain to face trial on charges of sedition rather than rebellion.
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Did Donald J. Trump say on Twitter that he planned to arrest the "Saturday Night Live" star Alec Baldwin for sedition?
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With the Trump administration, the routine tweets of National Park Service employees about carbon buildup, or history, can look like sedition.
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The confessions also perpetuated the illusion of a vast conspiracy against Syria, as detainees admitted to engaging in sedition or treason.
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The White family's spokesman said any suggestion that Mr. White might have engaged in espionage or sedition in Iran was false.
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Malaysian political cartoonist Zulkiflee Anwar Ulhaque was arrested for "sedition" while taking part in the George Town Literary Festival in Malaysia.
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Meanwhile, the party is dropping hints that it wants Mrs Lam to enact anti-sedition legislation as stipulated in the Basic Law.
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The government has charged critics and peaceful protesters with sedition, and criminalises speech deemed to be insulting or to breach "public tranquillity".
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The Supreme Court also began processing rebellion and sedition charges against Catalan parliament speaker Carme Forcadell and other senior leaders on Tuesday.
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Cartoonist Zulkiflee Anwar Ulhaque, known as Zunar, was arrested on suspicion of sedition Saturday following an exhibition at the Georgetown Literary Festival.
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They were demanding the release of student union president Kanhaiya Kumar who was arrested by the Indian government on charges of sedition.
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A popular Malaysian cartoonist has once again been arrested for sedition, prompted by his political drawings that satirise prime minister Najib Razak.
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This refers to a clause in Hong Kong's constitution that requires the territory to pass laws against treason, secession, sedition and subversion.
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Al-Nimr was executed in January 2016, after being arrested in 2012 and convicted of inciting sectarian strife, sedition and other charges.
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Much of the public's anger has focused on those militias and their patron, Iran (which calls the protests an act of sedition).
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Another reliable reflex in fashion is to reference rebellion, sedition the smoke screen for one of the most conformist of cultural undertakings.
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In September, five people were charged with sedition after police seized t-shirts that allegedly promoted the anti-monarchist "Thai Federation" movement.
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But the company was in fact a conquering regime, and saw itself surrounded by the disaffection and sedition of its conquered subjects.
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Meanwhile, a judge ordered the leaders of Catalonia's two biggest independence movements, above, to be detained without bail pending possible sedition charges.
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In the late 1990s, Mr. Chun was convicted of sedition and mutiny in connection with the 1979 coup and the Gwangju killings.
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Mr. Zaki, who is due to appear in court on Saturday, faces five charges, including sedition, promoting terrorism and disrupting public order.
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Twelve political and civic society leaders involved in the referendum were convicted, nine on charges of sedition and misuse of public funds.
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Mr. Junqueras received the toughest sentence, 13 years in prison, after he was found guilty of sedition and misuse of public funds.
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An uncle and the country's No. 2 official, Jang Song-thaek, was executed in 2013 on charges of factionalism, corruption and sedition.
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Pledges to end the death penalty and rescind oppressive laws such as the colonial-era Sedition Act were also unpopular with traditionalists.
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The Mossos, whose chief is under investigation on suspicion of sedition, will have to act on direct orders from their new bosses.
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On Wednesday, Spanish prosecutors said they were investigating Josep Lluís Trapero, the head of the 17,21960-strong Catalan police force, for sedition.
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" India's Supreme Court has limited the definition of India's colonial-era crime of sedition to speech that is "incitement to imminent lawless action.
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The Alien and Sedition Acts, passed by Congress in 1798, made it easier to deport foreigners and harder for new immigrants to vote.
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But democracy advocates do not understand how a government supposedly determined to repeal the Sedition Act can sit by while such abuses continue.
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The Mossos, whose former chief is under investigation on suspicion of sedition, will have to act on direct orders from their new bosses.
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NEW DELHI — Massive protests paralysed one of India's top universities, after the president of the student union was arrested on charges of sedition.
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"The Prime Minister came to power here talking about pluralism and diversity and promised to get rid of the Sedition act," he said.
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Cuixart, 44, was convicted of sedition for ignoring court orders by leading a protest against a police operation designed to halt the referendum.
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Conveniently for Mr Magufuli, an opposition MP, Zitto Kabwe Ruyagwa, was arrested the night before and charged with sedition, so could not attend.
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And Gyan Mukherjee's "Kismet" (1943) featured a liberation song so galvanising its writer Kavi Pradeep went underground to avoid British charges of sedition.
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Then on Thursday, the ministry tweeted that following and circulating "inflammatory" social media accounts that promote "sedition" would expose people to legal liabilities.
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It was different in 2003, when hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in protest against a proposed anti-sedition law.
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SEDITION AND statistics are two words that crop up with increasing regularity in the utterances of officials loyal to Tanzania's president, John Magufuli.
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To combat both dissent and Democratic-Republican strength among immigrants, Federalists under John Adams passed and enforced the 1798 Alien and Sedition acts.
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Seven years ago, dozens of officials who had advocated reform were paraded on state television to make forced confessions of participation in sedition.
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Adams later arrested one of Jefferson's pamphleteers during the election of 1800 and tried to prosecute him under the Alien and Sedition Acts.
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He is likely to be arrested if he returns to Spain, where he faces charges of sedition, rebellion and misuse of public funds.
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Twelve Catalan separatist leaders went on trial in Madrid Tuesday, facing charges including rebellion and sedition over a failed independence bid in 2017.
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Bills to repeal both the Sedition Act and the death penalty are expected to be tabled before the parliament which sits on Monday.
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Madrid also moved to prosecute Mr. Puigdemont and his allies for rebellion and sedition, prompting some to flee to several other European countries.
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The others — Siamak Namazi, Baquer Namazi and Xiyue Wang — have been accused of spying and sedition-related activities, which they have all denied.
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The Supreme Court sentenced nine leaders to between nine and 13 years in prison for sedition as well as misuse of public funds.
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Those countries variously accused Al Jazeera of promoting sedition, supporting terrorism and spreading false news — while offering scant evidence — before shutting it down.
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Dismissing the more serious charge of rebellion, it found nine of the leaders guilty of sedition and four of misuse of public funds.
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The court also issued a fresh European arrest warrant for sedition against Carles Puigdemont, the former Catalan president, who has fled to Belgium.
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Bolivia's acting president said on Saturday that an arrest warrant for Morales on charges of sedition would be issued over the days ahead.
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"If Iran had not confronted terrorists where the core of this sedition is, it would have faced more attacks in Iran," he said.
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However, the 55-year-old former journalist is currently living in exile in Belgium to avoid arrest in Spain on charges of sedition.
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The state legislatures of Virginia and Kentucky declared they could override the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 because they violated civil liberties.
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That's because for Beijing, talk of East Turkestan is criminal sedition: an attempt to break up China and throw the country into chaos.
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Storm of Sedition is part of the same Victoria, BC anarchist black metal/crust faction that claims Iskra, Not A Cost, and Black Kronstadt.
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They were charged with sedition, computer crimes and two of them face additional charges of breaking Thailand's royal defamation law, known as Article 112.
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Officials and conservative commentators in Iran have branded the uprisings as "sedition" — a term they used for domestic antigovernment demonstrations in 2009 and 2017.
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The protest was focused on opposing a proposed national security bill aimed to amend the laws dealing with treason, sedition, subversion and other acts.
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They accused her of designing websites to support "the sedition", a reference to the mass demonstrations that erupted following rigged presidential elections in 2009.
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It had been hoping that the territory would pass an anti-sedition bill, as required by the territory's post-colonial constitution, the Basic Law.
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Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit, the leader of the Future Forward party, was charged with sedition in relation to a protest against Thailand's military junta in 2015.
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Spain's state prosecutor on Monday called for rebellion and sedition charges to be brought against Catalan leaders over their push to separate from Spain.
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The second is the arrest for sedition of students at Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi, including the head of the student union, Kanhaiya Kumar.
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A Spanish judge issued an EU arrest warrant for him on charges of rebellion, sedition, misuse of public funds, disobedience and breach of trust.
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For example, sedition law in India was worse than the equivalent law in Britain because it was written explicitly to oppress the colonized people.
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Thirty-six opposition figures are accused of cyber libel and sedition for orchestrating a series of online videos ahead of May's mid-term elections.
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Back in Spain, eight other ex-ministers have been jailed pending an investigation and potential trial for rebellion, sedition and misuse of public funds.
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But Trump, and those around him, has an unsettling tendency to see dissent as inherently illegitimate — sour grapes at best and sedition at worst.
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Last month, a former newspaper columnist who was harshly critical of Suu Kyi on Facebook was sentenced to seven years in prison for sedition.
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Wangkhem was initially arrested on separate charges of sedition on November 21, before being released on November 25, his wife, Ranjita Elangbam, told Reuters.
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Zunar faces up to 43 years in prison on nine counts of sedition — the most counts anyone in Malaysia has ever been charged with.
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As it stands, Spain's chief prosecutor has called for criminal charges to be leveled against the pro-independence leadership for rebellion, sedition and embezzlement.
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So he likened Alabama's libel rules to those of the Sedition Act of 1798, which made it a crime to criticize the federal government.
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Your cartoon about the person in chains with the Sedition Act around his neck and the Penal Code as handcuffs … That's a self portrait.
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The government is also preparing to rescind the colonial-era Sedition Act, which was used by previous governments to silence critics and opposition politicians.
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Judges will now decide whether to charge them with rebellion, sedition and misuse of public funds for organizing the vote held on Oct. 1.
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Puigdemont said he was not trying to escape from justice after the state prosecutor recommended charges for rebellion and sedition be brought against him.
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Prosecutors are seeking sentences ranging from seven to 25 years for 12 separatist leaders on charges of rebellion, sedition and misappropriation of public funds.
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The Catalan police force — the leader of which is facing sedition charges in Madrid — was almost nowhere to be seen along the rally's route.
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" Jefferson set an impeachment in motion when he wrote to House Republicans, "Ought this sedition and official attack on the principles of our Constitution . . .
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Dismissing the more serious charge of rebellion, it found nine of the leaders guilty of sedition and four guilty of misuse of public funds.
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The notorious Alien and Sedition Acts, passed in 1798, tightened restrictions on Americans born outside the country and limited speech critical of the government.
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He was the guy who signed the Alien and Sedition Act, which was to make it, to keep the French out, at that point.
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But Mr. Azzat added that because Malaysia's colonial-era Sedition Act criminalizes open criticism of the monarchy, the palace's critics tend to keep quiet.
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"It is an unlawful action by the government," he said of the sedition charge against Wirathu, which can carry a penalty of life imprisonment.
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A Saudi court convicted him in May 2014 of sedition, rioting, protesting and robbery in Qatif district, home to many of the kingdom's minority Shi'ites.
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The crisis began with the arrest of Kanhaiya Kumar, the president of Jawaharlal Nehru University's student union, by the Delhi police on charges of sedition.
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It&aposs extraordinary to me that the ex- CIA director calls the president of the United States actions treasonous when his actions border on sedition.
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Storm of Sedition really stand in a class of their own, though, and Decivilize is ultimately one of the best releases I've heard this year.
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The government's proposal to pass a law criminalizing acts of sedition and subversion against mainland China -- referred to as "Article 22014" -- was the last straw.
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When it's not playing actual TV content, it cycles through photos and paintings, which come from partnerships with LUMAS, Saatchi Art, Sedition, and the Prado.
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The complaint against Mr. Kumar was for criminal conspiracy and sedition, which can carry a sentence of three years to as much as life imprisonment.
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On the one hand, a leader of a political protest or a rally might be accused of sedition, incitement to riot and maybe even trespass.
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In 2012, a cartoonist criticizing corruption was charged with sedition, as were, briefly, a group of Kashmiri students cheering the Pakistani cricket team in 2014.
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But he and eight other politicians are still due to be tried for sedition for attending a banned meeting the government says incited a riot.
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The BJP's definition of "sedition" precludes almost any debate on the future of Kashmir—a source of tension within India and with Pakistan since independence.
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Catalan civic groups Asamblea Nacional Catalana and Omnium Cultural - whose leaders were imprisoned last month on sedition charges - called for a general strike on Nov.
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The former journalist had been living in Belgium since last year's referendum in order to avoid charges of rebellion, sedition, and misuse of public funds.
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President Washington directed at least one attorney to drop a prosecution and President Jefferson ordered his attorneys to cease prosecutions under the Alien & Sedition Acts.
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Spain's Supreme Court began processing rebellion and sedition charges against the speaker of the Catalan parliament, Carme Forcadell, and five other parliamentary members on Tuesday.
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Article 23 of Hong Kong's Basic law says Hong Kong will enact a law to prohibit "treason, secession, sedition (and) subversion" against the national government.
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The Sedition Act was signed into law July 85033, 1798, and was set to expire on the last day of Adam's term, March 3, 1801.
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For now it lies dormant as a record of techno-utopian thought, awaiting its purpose in coming years as a manual for space-age sedition.
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — For his cartoons skewering Malaysia's political elite, Zulkiflee Anwar Haque was hit with nine sedition charges and banned from leaving the country.
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This month, a judge from Spain's national court ordered prison without bail for two leaders of the Catalan independence movement, pending a trial for sedition.
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" And even if Mr. Puigdemont is arrested on sedition charges, Ms. Lloveras added, "the Catalan republic will continue because the republic is not about individuals.
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At the most extreme, the Spanish government could arrest Mr. Puigdemont and charge him with sedition, as it has done with two other separatist leaders.
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School administrators and Hong Kong officials called the signs illegal, but legal scholars said it was questionable whether colonial-era sedition laws could be enforced.
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Mr. Maza said that they should stand trial for rebellion and sedition, as well as the misuse of public funds to organize an independence referendum.
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These include the Printing Presses and Publications Act 1984, the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998, the Sedition Act 1948 and the Official Secrets Act 1972.
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On Thursday, she threatened to persecute journalists who are "involved in sedition," adding that she already has a list of troublesome members of the media.
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The Edge publisher Ho Kay Tat had already been arrested on sedition charges, and now the authorities moved to suspend the newspaper's publication license altogether.
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British colonial-era anti-sedition laws, imposed in 1948, have been used to quell dissent in Malaysia, making it hard to protest for LGBT rights.
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Also last month, a former newspaper columnist who was harshly critical of Suu Kyi on Facebook was sentenced to seven years in prison for sedition.
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He faces charges of rebellion, sedition, and misuse of public funds, which carry a potential prison sentence of up to 30 years, if he returns.
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Police said he will be investigated under the country's Sedition Act, and also under a law that prohibits humiliating a person with intention, local papers reported.
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"Anything against the state's interests, through a non-violent action, is susceptible to be considered sedition," he said through an intercom from behind a glass wall.
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YANGON (Reuters) - A court in Myanmar has issued an arrest warrant for a nationalist Buddhist monk, Wirathu, on a charge of sedition, police said on Wednesday.
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The activists will be charged with crimes including sedition and violating a junta order that bans public gatherings of more than five people, local media reported.
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Puigdemont says a violent police crackdown during the referendum and arrests of pro-independence leaders on charges of sedition show the Spanish state has become authoritarian.
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Although the imprisonment of journalists on questionable charges of some sort of sedition may be distressing, the recent fall in incarcerations gives hope for the future.
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MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's state prosecutor on Monday called for rebellion and sedition charges to be brought against Catalonia's leaders over their push to separate from Spain.
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More than 100 highly regarded Spanish lawyers have stated that the "sedition" and "rebellion" charges against them are baseless, and many Catalans consider them political prisoners.
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Catalan civic groups Asamblea Nacional Catalana and Omnium Cultural - whose leaders were imprisoned last month on sedition charges - have called for a general strike on Nov.
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Spanish prosecutors in Madrid have brought rebellion, sedition, and embezzlement charges against Catalonian leader Carles Puigdemont and other members of parliament involved in the independence vote.
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Hichilema was granted bail in October after being charged with sedition, a move his team said was an attempt by the ruling party to silence dissent.
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" And the Republican Party's leadership, he adds, "appears to have taken a business-as-usual approach that, at best, amounts to the passive tolerance of sedition.
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What's more, several pro-independence politicians including Catalan President Carles Puigdemont, fled to Belgium when Spain issued a warrant for their arrest on serious sedition charges.
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In 28503, a decade after the signing of the Constitution, a Federalist-dominated Congress passed, and Federalist President John Adams signed, The Sedition Act of 22019.
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He told Reuters that the European Arrest Warrant system had removed exceptions previously made for extraditions to face "political" charges like sedition in other EU states.
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"There's some sedition in it," Mr. Mac said the morning after the barn performance, his face scrubbed fresh, though bits of glitter clung to it still.
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The Attorney's bid for the lesser charge of sedition coincides with efforts by the Socialist government of Pedro Sanchez to reduce tensions between Madrid and Barcelona.
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After the decisions by Mr. Rajoy's government, Spain's judiciary could step in more forcefully and even order the arrest of Mr. Puigdemont and others for sedition.
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But as someone who sees a lot of plays and a lot of the same plays, I'm a fan of the cheerful sedition at its heart.
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Mr. Puidgemont now appears poised to become Catalonia's leader once again, despite having fled to Belgium to avoid prosecution in Spain, possibly for sedition and rebellion.
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He also made a reference to the "unfair imprisonment" of Joaquim Forn, a Catalan separatist lawmaker who is awaiting trial on charges of rebellion and sedition.
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The court also issued a fresh European arrest warrant, for sedition, against Carles Puigdemont, the former Catalan president, who fled to exile in Belgium in 2017.
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The commonwealth with its wealth and riches, its strength, with all its sedition, and sickness and civil war is indeed a Leviathan playing havoc with creation.
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"If Adam Schiff was working with the 'whistleblower' team to leak to the media--he should be expelled from congress and charged with sedition," one tweeted.
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At least three other Americans are known to be in Iranian custody, including two of Iranian descent, on sedition or spying accusations that they have denied.
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It all started on February 12, when Kanhaiya Kumar, the president of the JNU student union, was arrested by Delhi police under colonial-era sedition charges.
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Madrid has since taken direct control of Catalonia and the public prosecutor has accused Puigdemont of rebellion and sedition, crimes carrying up to 30 years in jail.
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In the satirical play, a judge orders the death penalty for a revolutionary who is charged for sedition for fighting for India's independence from British colonial rulers.
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Mahathir jailed Lim during a political crackdown in October 1987 that he said was aimed at preventing racial riots, and again in 1998 under the Sedition Act.
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During the war, Wilson signed the Espionage Act and Sedition Act, which made it illegal to say almost anything against the United States or its war effort.
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The first pardons he granted were to people who were still in jail for violating the alien sedition laws, and Jefferson opposed those [in the first place].
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Kumar, who was arrested by Delhi police and was charged with sedition, the crime of inciting rebellion against the government, has been held without bail since Friday.
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Puigdemont will name pro-independence campaigner Jordi Sanchez, currently in jail on remand in Madrid for charges of sedition, for his successor as candidate, the paper said.
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The indigenous activist, 38, went into hiding after losing a sedition trial last year over deadly protests he led against Canadian mining company Bear Creek in 2011.
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Talking late into the night with the news left on throughout, Prince Muhammad discusses his country's interventionist foreign policy and its uncompromising response to terrorism and sedition.
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In a McCarthy era case, the United States Supreme Court ruled that federal law pre-empted states from prosecuting individuals for treason-like offenses, such as sedition.
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Other statutes ban gatherings of more than five people, prevent critics of the regime from travelling and allow civilians to be tried in military courts for sedition.
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The Thai military, which took control of the country in 2014 in a coup, stifled debate about the Constitution by harassing journalists and charging critics with sedition.
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Sedition is one of the most widely used instruments in the military government's toolbox for stifling dissent, activists said, and carries a maximum sentence of seven years.
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"We are here to kill this sedition in its cradle," the commander, dressed in green camouflage and a black turban told his fighters, the online video shows.
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There's Zunar, who is facing sedition charges in Malaysia; and more recently a cartoonist named Musa Kart, who was arrested during the post-coup crackdown in Turkey.
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Malaysia already has an arsenal of laws, including a colonial-era Sedition Act, that have been used to clamp down on unfavorable news and social media posts.
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The attorney general said the separatist leaders should also be prosecuted for sedition and misuse of public funds, after organizing and staging an independence referendum on Oct.
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Mr. Puigdemont, on the other hand, could face sedition charges and ultimately a long prison sentence for presenting a unilateral declaration of independence that violates Spain's Constitution.
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And he has talked about [how] Muslims who abide by the adherence of the faith should be considered to be tried for acts of sedition and prosecuted.
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He is likely to be detained if he returns to Spain, pending investigation on charges of sedition, rebellion, misuse of public funds, disobedience and breach of trust.
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Though Singaporeans take pride in their multicultural society, the country's strict media and sedition laws discourage talk of ethnic and religious differences — not to mention sexual identity.
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Forever fearful of sedition and conspiracies, the colonial government used the opportunity offered by the First World War to introduce the Defense of India Act in 1915.
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In the 1990s, he was sentenced to six months in prison for sedition after protesters blocked roads throughout the country to try halt the Oslo peace process.
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In its manifesto, the Congress party promised to remove the sedition law, which has been much abused and is seen as a relic of a colonial state.
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Mr. Zulkiflee, who is known by the pen name Zunar, was charged with nine counts of sedition and still could face up to 43 years in prison.
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As such, when the Supreme Court ruled out rebellion charges, and confirmed sedition instead, one may have expected a sigh of relief in the Catalan nationalist sector.
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Separately, Spain's attorney general is seeking to prosecute 22015 Catalan politicians for rebellion, sedition and the misuse of public funds over the independence referendum held on Oct.
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A Spanish judge issued a European arrest warrant for Mr. Puigdemont on Monday, hours after the Supreme Court sentenced the other Catalan former separatist leaders for sedition.
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Police officer Rajesh Deo said Imam had been found after a three-day search in Bihar and would be moved to Delhi to face charges of sedition.
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The striking irony is some of those same people actually condemning the president for fake treason now suggest things that are actually treasonous — like a coup and sedition.
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The former deputy leader of the Catalan regional government and leaders of two separatist groups are accused of sedition in their bid to declare Catalonia independent from Spain.
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He's sitting in a Spanish jail, on trial with other Catalan former regional officials for sedition after helping to organize an independence referendum in 2017 that angered Madrid.
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"There is no need for a sedition law in today's times, it is a colonial law," said Kapil Sibal, a senior leader of the main opposition Congress party.
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Indian student leader Kanhaiya Kumar returned to the campus of Jawaharlal Nehru University, after being released on bail following his arrest on charges of sedition three weeks ago.
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"Any pretence that Catalans can have free and fair elections on December 21st has been destroyed by the charges of rebellion and sedition," he tweeted a month later.
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Twenty regional politicians, including sacked regional government president Carles Puigdemont, were called to appear Thursday after the chief prosecutor demanded charges of rebellion, sedition and embezzlement be pressed.
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In all, 20 regional politicians are being investigated on possible charges of rebellion, sedition and embezzlement for declaration of secession the Parliament of Catalonia made on Oct. 27.
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Banking early on the attention it could win them, Vox became co-accuser in the ongoing Supreme Court trial of twelve Catalan separatist leaders for rebellion and sedition.
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One likens his role to that of an Elizabethan spy, picking up any whiff of plot or sedition—or salacious gossip—and feeding it back to the "chief".
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The arrest of the lecturer, S.A.R. Geelani, came just days after the police arrested the student union president of Jawaharlal Nehru University, Kanhaiya Kumar, on a sedition charge.
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The fear of abuse -- or of being accused of sedition and thrown in jail -- often means villagers have no one to turn to for help against the Maoists.
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It was not the first time Mr. Zulkiflee, who already faces nine charges of sedition and is barred from leaving the country, has courted trouble with his pen.
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Senator Douglas' new sedition law must be enacted and enforced, suppressing all declarations that slavery is wrong, whether made in politics, in presses, in pulpits, or in private.
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Puigdemont was attempting to cross into Germany from Denmark on his way to Belgium when he was detained on a recently reissued European warrant for sedition and rebellion.
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Spain's High Court barred Trapero from leaving the country and seized his passport as part of an investigation for alleged sedition, although it has not ordered his arrest.
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They could face charges of sedition and rebellion after advocating independence for Catalonia in violation of the Spanish Constitution, and for organizing a referendum on independence on Oct.
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Spain's judiciary also turned down an appeal on Friday to release two other separatist leaders who have been jailed since mid-October awaiting trial on sedition charges. video
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All five still face warrants for their arrests in Spain for sedition, rebellion and misappropriation of funds in relation to the regional government's push for secession from Spain.
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Spain's High Court issued an arrest warrant last week on sedition and rebellion charges for Puigdemont and four former members of his cabinet who are also in Brussels.
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Nine of the 12 leaders, including Romeva, have been in pre-trial detention for close to two years over charges of rebellion, sedition and misappropriation of public funds.
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Defamation suits are common in the city-state and may sometimes be accompanied by a charge of sedition, which is punishable by up to 21 years in prison.
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In one, Josep Lluís Trapero, the former head of the Catalan regional police force, is due to appear before Spain's national court in Madrid to face sedition charges.
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Cybercrime and sedition legislation has been used to target thousands of people who have spoken out against the junta and its limits on freedom of assembly and speech.
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An arrest warrant from February 1995 detailed that Marcos was sought on charges of terrorism, sedition, riot, rebellion, conspiracy, and the illegal use of firearms, among other crimes.
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In reply to written questions from Reuters passed to him in prison where he is being held on allegations of rebellion and sedition, Oriol Junqueras struck a conciliatory tone.
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Catalonia's president, Carles Puigdemont, was stripped of his office and fled to Brussels to escape proposed charges of sedition and rebellion, which could carry a 30-year jail sentence.
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In addition to the sedition charges, Spain&aposs government has said the fired leaders could be charged with usurping others&apos functions if they attempt to carry on working.
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The regime clamped down, accusing the moderate leaders of the opposition, known as the Green Movement, not only of sedition, but of being mohaareb—people who fight with God.
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"The junta's use of its draconian sedition law against critics of the draft constitution creates a climate of fear ahead of the referendum," said Brad Adams, HRW's Asia director.
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Spain's High Court last week banned Trapero from leaving Spain and seized his passport as part of an investigation for alleged sedition, although it did not order his arrest.
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The political leaders face charges of rebellion, sedition and misuse of public funds for their part in an illegal declaration of independence by the northeastern region in October, 2017.
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"Today, the Lahore High Court has granted bail to Rizvi and Qadri in the cases of terrorism, sedition and inciting for violence," TLP lawyer Muhammad Arif Awan told Reuters.
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All 15 protesters have been charged with sedition, violating a junta ban on political gatherings of more than five people and illegal assembly that caused violence, among other charges.
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MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's state prosecutor has asked for Catalonia's police chief - under formal investigation for sedition - to be held in custody without bail, a legal source said on Monday.
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Two days ago, a twenty-four-year-old man was arrested, detained, and investigated under the Sedition Act for pasting a clown-faced Najib sticker on a police car.
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"The decision was made by the cabinet yesterday that since we are going to abolish the Sedition Act, action under that act should be suspended temporarily," he told reporters.
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The take down Right from its founding, Future Forward Party and its executives were hit with dozens of legal cases, ranging from sedition, computer crimes and undermining the monarchy.
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Major Trapero, who is facing possible sedition charges after he was accused of failing to stop protesters last month from encircling national police officers, also wrote to his colleagues.
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It's definitely a radical action that I would characterize as sedition, but because there has been no violence associated with it at this point, we can't call it terrorism.
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Uzbekistan has freed a reporter who was incarcerated for nearly two decades on sedition charges, the longest-known prison term served by a journalist, human rights advocates said Friday.
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Facing charges of rebellion, sedition, and misuse of public funds, he faces immediate arrest if he returns to Spain and a potential prison sentence of up to 30 years.
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In all, the Spanish attorney general wants to prosecute 20 Catalan politicians for rebellion, sedition and the misuse of public funds to organize the independence referendum on Oct. 1.
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And leftists and libertarians condemn him for establishing conscription and signing the Espionage and Sedition Acts that essentially made all vocal opposition to the nation's war with Germany illegal.
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Just before Tuesday's protest, eight members of the Pheu Thai Party, which is affiliated with Mr. Thaksin, were charged with sedition or with flouting a ban on political activity.
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Puigdemont has been unable to return to Spain, where he is wanted on charges of sedition and misuse of public funds for his role in the failed independence bid.
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The latter "deliberately uploaded a statement with elements of sedition that can cause an environment of disharmony, disorder, feelings of enmity and disrupting public peace and safety," police said.
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It would appear that, two hundred and eighteen years later, the principles of the Alien and Sedition Acts have sprung, with surprising vigor, from their resting place in history.
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Once there, Saudi security forces jailed her on charges of sedition, torturing her in a secret facility outside Jeddah, where she remains, her brother Walid al-Hathloul told Reuters.
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A few days later, during a Republican debate, Ted Cruz called Donald Trump's language "quite incendiary," and "incendiary" ("tending to arouse strife, sedition") shot up in the rankings. Dictionary.
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These conditions make it hard for Puigdemont to stand, as he is likely to be arrested and tried on charges including sedition and rebellion if he returns to Spain.
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In 1981, Lopez Rivera was convicted of sedition and other charges, along with other members of the Armed Forces of National Liberation, known by its Spanish-language acronym as FALN.
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DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - Tanzania has charged six opposition leaders with sedition and incitement to violence, a move branded by critics of the government as an effort to silence dissent.
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However, he has consolidated power by sacking dissenters within UMNO, which has ruled Malaysia since 1957, and using a controversial and repressive colonial-era sedition law to silence other critics.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian police on Monday charged 10 people, including a prominent former student organizer, with sedition, in a case that activists say is really about freedom of speech.
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In a separate hearing at the Supreme Court, the Catalan parliament speaker and five regional lawmakers were testifying on Thursday on charges of sedition, rebellion and misuse of public funds.
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The comments created considerable controversy, which resulted in protests, a sedition case against the actor and attacks on the e-commerce platform Snapdeal for which he is a brand ambassador.
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While the Basic Law enshrines far broader civil and commercial freedoms than exist in mainland China, some legal experts warn that a sustained independence campaign could break laws against sedition.
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Catalonia's two main grassroots independence groups called the march, under the slogan "Freedom for the political prisoners," after their leaders were remanded in custody on charges of sedition last month.
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Full and frank debate about these kinds of interventions is made fraught by an archaic law on "sedition", which occasionally sees jail sentences handed to Malaysians accused of insulting royalty.
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Dating to the colonial era, sedition charges have been applied broadly in successive governments, often targeting political opponents rather than people inciting violence, which is the aim of the law.
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In India a student leader, Kanhaiya Kumar, who was arrested after protesting in 2013 against the hanging of a Kashmiri militant, was charged with sedition under a colonial-era law.
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Last year at least 15 people, mostly dissenters in politics and civil society, were charged under a noxious colonial-era sedition law that Mr Najib had once promised to repeal.
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""Media coverage inside Iran focused almost exclusively on pro-regime rallies held [today] to mark the defeat of the last major protest movement in 2009, which hardliners call 'the sedition.
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Catalan pro-independence union CSC called the strike which was supported by civic groups Asamblea Nacional Catalana (ANC) and Omnium Cultural, whose leaders were imprisoned last month on sedition charges.
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Of the three, only Jefferson would have (and then did) repeal part of the Alien and Sedition Acts, which forbade criticism of the president and nearly eviscerated the First Amendment.
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Gabriel was called to appear in the Supreme Court on charges of sedition and rebellion surrounding her alleged part in Catalonia's illegal independence referendum and subsequent secession declaration in October.
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Mahfuz Anam, the prominent editor of Bangladesh's largest English daily the Daily Star, was slapped with 79 sedition and defamation charges amounting to an alleged $17 billion, as of February.
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Communications and Multimedia Minister Gobind Singh Deo said on Thursday that cabinet had decided to suspend use of the Sedition Act as they prepare a bill to repeal it altogether.
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Significantly, however, the judge ordered the two leaders of the largest pro-independence citizens' movements to be detained without bail while the authorities determine whether to charge them with sedition.
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He called on lawmakers instead to appoint Jordi Sanchez, another legislator from his pro-independence party, who is in prison in Madrid pending his own trial on charges of sedition.
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She was tried and sentenced to five years in prison on charges of sedition after she was accused of plotting a "soft toppling" of the government, according to the foundation.
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In protest at the jailings, Catalan civic groups Asamblea Nacional Catalana and Omnium Cultural — whose leaders were imprisoned last month on sedition charges — called for a general strike on Nov.
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Mr. Heo said he decided to spy for the National Intelligence Service in 2014 after Kim Jong-un executed his own uncle, Jang Song-thaek, on sedition and corruption charges.
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"We have read about the Alien and Sedition Acts, the thousands of civilians imprisoned during the Civil War, and the suppression of civil liberties during World War I," he wrote.
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Spain's Supreme Court handed down prison sentences of 9–13 years Monday to 9 Catalan separatist leaders for sedition over their roles in the 2017 independence referendum, the BBC reports.
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The court verdicts followed a landmark trial in which 12 leaders of the Catalan independence movement stood accused of crimes ranging from rebellion and sedition to misuse of public funds.
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"When you really look at what the Confederacy and the monuments really represent, they represent acts of sedition against the United State of America," Bell said in a telephone interview.
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In all, 20 members of the former leadership of the region now face charges, including possibly for rebellion and sedition, which hold penalties of up to 30 years in prison.
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If he returns to Spain, Puigdemont faces up to 25 years in prison on charges of rebellion and sedition for his part in organizing an illegal referendum on secession last year.
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In 2003, an anti-sedition law which sparked previously the largest protests in Hong Kong since the 1997 handover to Chinese rule was also suspended first before eventually being scrapped altogether.
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The bill could have seen anyone convicted of treason, sedition, secession or subversion against China jailed for life, and -- like Sunday's protest -- attracted huge opposition from many sectors of Hong Kong.
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He has sacked critics within his ruling party and has used a different law, the Sedition Act, which has been criticized by rights groups, against opposition party leaders, activists and lawyers.
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"Do you commit to ending (direct rule) if that is the result?" said Puigdemont, the public face of the move for independence who is wanted in Spain for rebellion and sedition.
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Puigdemont, speaking at a press conference in Brussels, said he was not trying to escape from justice after prosecutors in Madrid recommended charges for rebellion and sedition be brought against him.
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MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's High Court said on Monday it had ordered that two leaders of Catalan separatist organizations be remanded in custody while they remain under investigation on suspicion of sedition.
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According to Zitto Kabwe, another prominent opposition figure who has been arrested several times, no fewer than 17 of his colleagues face—or have recently faced—prosecution, also mainly for sedition.
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After Catalonia declared independence last fall, Spain's central government dissolved the regional Parliament and charged its leaders with sedition, a move which prompted Mr. Puigdemont to flee into exile in Brussels.
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The sedition charge, which was filed by the junta, was the second criminal case opened against Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit, 40, since he formed the progressive, youth-oriented Future Forward Party last year.
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BRUSSELS/MADRID/BARCELONA (Reuters) - Sacked Catalonia leader Carles Puigdemont and four associates turned themselves in to Belgian police on Sunday, following Spain's issuing of an arrest warrant for rebellion and sedition.
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Though some media reports on Saturday said the arrest was linked to sedition charges, Mr. Sorder said Mr. Rehman had been arrested only on accusations of conspiracy to commit a crime.
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In 2015 alone, according to Amnesty International, 91 people were arrested, charged or investigated under the 1948 Sedition Act — almost five times as many as during the law's first 50 years.
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" Speaking ill of a public figure, the prevailing jurisprudence added, "has a direct tendency to breed in the people a dislike of their governors and incline them to faction and sedition.
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In 2003, as many as half a million people marched against proposals to expand sedition laws and impose drastic curbs on existing freedoms, and brought down the government of the day.
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His government has undermined judicial and parliamentary independence, implemented a partial ban on public rallies, harassed MPs, closure of online political space, and prosecuted critics under new defamation and sedition laws.
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Self-described as an "anti-civilization anarchist crust punk band," Storm of Sedition is based in Victoria, BC, which is considered by anti-colonialists to be occupied Lekwungen and Songhees Territory.
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The Catalan parliament's speaker and five lawmakers are appearing on Thursday before Spain's Supreme Court in Madrid to answer charges of rebellion and sedition for their roles in staging the referendum.
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Order needed to be maintained, and the militants of the Industrial Workers of the World (better known as Wobblies) were anarchists fomenting sabotage and sedition under the guise of workers' rights.
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Despite the organizers' calls for a peaceful protest, Karachi's paramilitary and police forces had tried to thwart the demonstration, labeling the movement a terrorist group and accusing its leaders of sedition.
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The city's police registered over 150 cases against the movements' workers in the days before the Sunday rally, including some of its top organizers, on charges of sedition, terrorism and rioting.
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Mr. Warmbier was one of more than a dozen Americans imprisoned in North Korea over the years, some for as long as two years, on accusations including illegal entry and sedition.
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Details: Pakistani security services have accused Ms. Ismail of a litany of serious offenses including sedition, financing terrorism and defaming state institutions, but they have not filed formal charges against her.
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Bolivia's former President Evo Morales will be accused of sedition in an arrest warrant authorities are preparing to issue against him within days, interim leader Jeanine Áñez told reporters, per Reuters.
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Also on Thursday, the European Union's highest court made a significant decision in favor of the former deputy leader of Catalonia, Oriol Junqueras, who is serving a prison sentence for sedition.
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SANANDITA, Bolivia (Reuters) - Bolivia will issue an arrest warrant in the coming days against former leftist President Evo Morales, accusing him of sedition, interim Bolivian President Jeanine Anez said on Saturday.
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" He closed with an ominous directive: "Burying sedition is a national, moral, and religious duty, and all those who can contribute to burying it and do not are part of it.
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Prosecutors have meanwhile issued an arrest warrant against Morales for sedition, terrorism and terrorist financing, promoted by the government of interim President Jeanine Anez, a former senator and opponent of Morales.
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But ERC argues that much has changed since then, including the October sentencing of party chairman Oriol Junqueras to 13 years in prison for sedition after Catalonia's failed 2017 independence bid.
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Protesters outside the club waved the Chinese flag and displayed banners warning of a "conspiracy to split Hong Kong from China" and calling for the implementation of an anti-sedition law.
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A lawyer affiliated with opponents of Morales, Jorge Valda, said he planned to also ask authorities to issue an arrest warrant for Morales' daughter, Evaliz Morales, for alleged sedition and corruption.
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Flanked by hundreds of police, pro- and anti-separatist demonstrators gathered outside the Supreme Court, where the defendants face charges of rebellion, sedition and misuse of public funds, which they all reject.
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The comments came just hours after Spain issued an arrest warrant on sedition and other charges for Puigdemont, who went to Brussels after his government was sacked over a declaration of independence.
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Puigdemont and the four other former ministers are being sought for five different crimes, including rebellion, sedition and embezzlement in a Spanish investigation into their roles in pushing for secession for Catalonia.
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Najib has in recent months used the colonial era Sedition Act and other draconian laws to arrest government critics, jail opposition leaders and stifle free speech by suspending media groups and blogs.
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In 2003 marches convinced the authorities to shelve an anti-sedition law that Beijing wanted to impose, an upset which led to the resignation of the first chief executive, Tung Chee-hwa.
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But if they do pay up, they risk being labeled Maoist sympathizers by government forces, which could lead to sedition charges and a minimum three years behind bars -- and even lifetime imprisonment.
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Rajoy said he would respect the decision of the Spanish Supreme Court which on Thursday is hearing sedition allegations from state prosecutors against the Catalan parliament speaker and five other Catalan lawmakers.
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On Friday, Spain issued an arrest warrant for Puigdemont and four associates to answer charges of rebellion, sedition, misuse of public funds, disobedience and breach of trust relating to their secessionist campaign.
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Prawet appeared in a Bangkok court on Wednesday and was charged with 10 counts of royal insult and three counts of breaking Section 116 of Thailand's criminal code, the equivalent of sedition.
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While the international community has long reprimanded Bangkok for detaining and arresting citizens under lese-majeste and sedition charges, the public targeting of Marshall, Jeamteerasakul and Chachavalpongpun was unusually aggressive, experts said.
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Puigdemont's self-imposed exile came after Spain's chief prosecutor on Monday called for charges of rebellion, sedition and embezzlement to be leveled against the Catalan leader, his deputies and other Catalan officials.
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Wilson signed the Espionage and Sedition acts, which enabled the government to monitor its own citizens and made it a crime to "utter, print, write or publish" anything "disloyal" about the government.
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Spain's High Court has summoned Puigdemont and 13 other former members of the Catalan government to testify in Madrid on Thursday and Friday on charges of rebellion, sedition and breach of trust.
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Mahfuz Anam, the editor of Bangladesh's most popular English-language newspaper, The Daily Star, faces more than a dozen cases involving charges of sedition and more than 60 that include defamation charges.
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As popular support has eroded, Mr. Najib's government has blocked news outlets, prevented opposition leaders from campaigning and prosecuted critics under a colonial-era sedition act that he once promised to repeal.
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They also profile Mr. Pizango, who at one point seeks asylum in Nicaragua after being charged with sedition for leading protests, but returns to Peru to face those allegations a year later.
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Sedition, however, remains on the books in India, as it does "across post-colonial Asia," said Karuna Nundy, a Supreme Court lawyer who argued and won the case striking down section 66a.
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The woman, Ai Takagi, 23, pleaded guilty to four counts of sedition over the articles, posted on a website, called The Real Singapore, that she ran with her Singaporean husband, Yang Kaiheng.
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They are among the foreign nationals incarcerated in Iran on spying or sedition charges, a continuing source of tension in that country's relations with Western nations, particularly the United States and Britain.
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Should Mr. Puigdemont resist Mr. Rajoy's plans, Spain's judiciary could separately step in and order that he and other separatists be arrested on charges of sedition or even rebellion for declaring independence.
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Myanmar: A radical Buddhist monk has been charged with sedition over what prosecutors say are defamatory remarks he made about the nation's civilian leader, the Nobel laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.
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Puigdemont and his sacked cabinet have been ordered to testify before the Spanish High Court on Thursday and Friday after charges of rebellion, sedition and breach of trust were filed against them.
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Last month, Spain's attorney general demanded that 20 Catalan politicians be prosecuted on charges ranging from rebellion and sedition to the misuse of public funds while organizing an independence referendum on Oct.
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Thousands of people took to the streets in Catalan cities to protest the jailing of the politicians, which follows the detention of two other separatist leaders last month on grounds of sedition.
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Chase, riding circuit (which Supreme Court Justices used to do), had presided over the most notorious persecutions of Republican printers on charges of sedition, including the conviction of the printer James Callender.
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The Sedition Act expired on March 21863, 21865, the day before Jefferson's Inauguration, but, through a series of midnight appointments, Adams had connived to insure that Jefferson inherited a Federalist Supreme Court.
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Munich prosecutors have received a complaint filed by a German technology law firm two weeks ago alleging that Facebook broke strict national laws against hate speech, sedition and support for terrorist organisations.
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Spain has warned headmasters that if they open their buildings to voting they could face a charge of sedition, which under Spanish law carries a prison sentence of up to 15 years.
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He also faces two criminal charges, one for computer crimes for a speech he posted criticizing the junta in 2018, and another for sedition for allegedly aiding anti-junta protesters in 2015.
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Spain's Supreme Court on Monday sentenced nine Catalan separatist leaders to between nine and 13 years in prison for sedition over their role in the region's failed bid for independence in 2017.
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Protests spread when Kumar was arrested last week for sedition, after giving a speech questioning the hanging in 2013 of Mohammad Afzal Guru over his role in the 2001 attack on parliament.
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Eight former members of the Catalan government and the leaders of the two main pro-independence grassroots groups remain in custody awaiting trial at the High Court on charges of rebellion and sedition.
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The High Court last week issued arrest warrants on charges of rebellion and sedition for Puigdemont, who flew to Brussels after being deposed, and four other former government members who went with him.
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During a protest in Figures, Spain, on April 5, people wear white masks in support of Catalonian politicians jailed on charges of sedition and condemning the arrest of Catalonia's former president Carles Puigdemont.
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Crucially, they had records of his arrests and incarceration, along with documentation of Singapore's poor track record regarding free speech and how it has used colonial-era sedition laws to target political opponents.
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Former Catalonian vice-president Oriol Junqueras, former cabinet member Joaquim Forn and two leaders of civic groups ANC and Omnium Cultural, faced with charges of sedition, have been refused bail, Spain's Supreme Court.
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Ominously, parts of the mainland's state-run media are calling for Hong Kong to enact anti-sedition laws, as the territory's government is required to under Article 23 of the post-colonial constitution.
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Wildlife photographers and wildlife/bird watchers now number some 40 million people in the USA, and feed many rural western economies with our tourism dollars, and we will not stand for your sedition.
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The GCC accused Hezbollah of committing "hostile acts" against GCC states, including recruiting young men to carry out "terrorist attacks, smuggling weapons and explosives, stirring up sedition and incitement to chaos and violence".
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MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's Supreme Court on Monday sentenced nine Catalan separatist leaders to between 9 and 13 years in prison for sedition over their role in the region's 2017 failed bid for independence.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - The leader of a new party that has challenged Thailand's military government was charged on Saturday with sedition, the latest legal action facing the rising star after a disputed March election.
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Since arriving in Brussels, Puigdemont and the four ex-ministers who accompanied him there have been slapped with European arrest warrants for rebellion and sedition, crimes carrying up to 30 years in jail.
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At the same time as the Jat protests outside Delhi last month, India's political establishment was convulsed by a controversy surrounding the arrest for sedition, under a colonial-era law, of Kanhaiya Kumar.
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Mr. Ramdev was also outspoken in his condemnation of a student at a New Delhi university who faced sedition charges after the authorities accused him of participating in a pro-Pakistan campus rally.
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Ponsati is facing one charge of sedition, according to court documents issued in Spain, the same charge for which various independence leaders were sentenced in October to up to 13 years in prison.
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As a result pro-democracy lawmakers were unable to regain veto power in the city's legislature, a development which could clear the way for the government to introduce its controversial anti-sedition legislation.
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MADRID, Oct 16 (Reuters) - Spain's High Court said on Monday it had ordered that two leaders of Catalan separatist organizations be remanded in custody while they remain under investigation on suspicion of sedition.
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Britain ruled Hong Kong as a colony for 156 years, until 1997, and many colonial statutes remain on the books, including legislation defining severe criminal penalties for acts such as treason and sedition.
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Another fake post that went viral recently was on popular student leader Kanhaiya Kumar, who was arrested and charged with sedition after a 2016 rally to commemorate the execution of a Kashmiri separatist.
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And in 2003, an effort to enact a package of laws prohibiting sedition, subversion and treason against the Chinese government was shelved after half a million residents poured into the streets in protest.
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On Monday, demonstrators blocked railways and thousands descended on Barcelona's international airport, where some clashed with police, after Junqueras and eight others were convicted of sedition and jailed for nine to 13 years.
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Eight former members of the Catalan government and the leaders of the two main pro-independence grassroots groups are already in custody, awaiting trial on sedition charges for their parts in the Oct.
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Pashteen was arrested by police from Peshawar in the early hours of Monday on a number of charges, including "sedition," a senior police official of Pakistan's northwestern province of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa told Reuters.
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The first exhibition, Sedition (2008), paralleled the general election leading to Obama's first term, while the second show, #makeamericagreatagain (2016) focused on this year's primaries and the emergence of Republican nominee Donald Trump.
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The former opposition head, Anwar Ibrahim, is in jail on sodomy charges and a number of opposition lawmakers have been investigated or charged with sedition or other offenses since the last elections in 2013.
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"If you don't do it off the bat when you come into power I'm not sure it will ever get done," says Ambiga Sreenevasan, a prominent lawyer investigated for sedition by Mr Najib's government.
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Fears over the bill -- and criticism from a broad swath of Hong Kong society -- echo 2003, when half a million people took to the streets to oppose the passage of an anti-sedition law.
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Though police put the protest size at closer to 250,000, there's little doubt that the march was among the largest since 2003, when 500,000 people protested against a sedition law -- and successfully blocked it.
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The Catalan administration was also dismissed, and senior lawmakers have been arrested and charged with sedition, rebellion, and misuse of funds for their alleged role in the bid to secede, prompting large public protests.
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NEW DELHI — The police have arrested the president of a student union here on a complaint of sedition, a news agency reported, the latest controversy to hit one of the country's highly politicized universities.
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While Najib has been buffeted by allegations of graft and mismanagement at 1MDB, he has cracked down on dissenters within his party and outside, using a colonial-era Sedition Act and other security laws.
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Damon Albarn's animated band, Gorillaz, teamed up with the Long Beach rapper Vince Staples for a radical protest song that takes aim at what Albarn refers to as our world's troubling "times of sedition."
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"We will not facilitate, either by action or by omission, an extreme right government in Spain," ERC leader Oriol Junqueras said from the Madrid jail where he is being held during his sedition trial.
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MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's Supreme Court on Monday sentenced nine Catalan separatist leaders to between nine and 13 years in prison for sedition over their role in the region's failed bid for independence in 2017.
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MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's State Attorney dropped a call for rebellion charges to be brought against jailed Catalan independence leaders on Friday, and said it would seek lesser charges of sedition and misappropriation of funds.
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YANGON (Reuters) - A Myanmar official on Tuesday told a court that a nationalist Buddhist monk, Wirathu, who has evaded arrest on sedition charges, "incited hatred" against leader Aung San Suu Kyi and her government.
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He is wielding sticks along with the carrots: Anwar Ibrahim, the charismatic opposition leader, remains in jail on sodomy charges, activists and politicians have been charged with sedition, critical news websites have been closed.
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Regina Ip won a seat in the constituency of Hong Kong Island, despite having served as the government's security chief during its aborted attempt in 2003 to introduce a much-hated law against sedition.
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Some are charged with crimes such as rebellion and sedition, others with support for terrorism or through hate crimes legislation (in these cases quite literally turning the intent of the legislation on its head).
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But then nine former separatist leaders of Catalonia were sentenced to prison last month for sedition, and the backlash in the northeastern region has returned Spain's territorial conflict to the top of the agenda.
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The convictions, and a gradual understanding by the public of what the Sedition Act meant to free speech, created an uproar and provided a major wedge issue, helping Jefferson to win the 1800 race.
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And in 2012, the prime minister made an open pledge to Malaysia that he would abolish the Sedition Act, live on TV. But he uses it more now, and it's going to be strengthened.
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On Friday, Spain handed over to Belgian prosecutors the warrant for rebellion, sedition, misuse of public funds, disobedience and breach of trust relating to Catalonia's independence campaign for Puigdemont and four of his associates.
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The former military dictator Chun Doo-hwan was sentenced to death and his friend and successor, Roh Tae-woo, was sentenced to 22½ years in prison on bribery, mutiny and sedition charges in 1996.
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Puigdemont traveled to Belgium Monday, the same day Spain's chief prosecutor called for criminal charges including rebellion, sedition, and misuse of public funds to be laid against him and other pro-independence Catalan leaders.
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Mr. Kim is believed to have used the ministry in the arrests and executions of senior officials, including an uncle, Jang Song-thaek, who was executed on charges of corruption and sedition in 2013.
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Thanathorn also faces two criminal charges, one for computer crimes for a speech he posted on Facebook criticising the junta last year, and another for sedition for allegedly aiding anti-junta protesters in 2015.
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The creation of the CFPB as a rogue agency with a dictatorial leader is one of the most significant acts of malfeasance perpetrated on the American constitutional system since the Sedition Acts of 1798.
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Last month, Spain's Supreme Court sentenced nine separatist leaders from the region of Catalonia to between nine and 13 years in prison for sedition over their role in a failed 2017 bid for independence.
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"It is clear that the Supreme Court's interpretation of the crime of sedition was overly broad and resulted in criminalising legitimate acts of protest," said Daniel Joloy, a senior policy advisor with Amnesty International.
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Alongside state prosecutors, Vox's lawyers filed their own set of charges against the Catalans, who are accused of rebellion and sedition in connection with the 2017 referendum and the region's subsequent declaration of independence.
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YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar's most prominent group of nationalist Buddhist monks on Monday condemned sedition charges against one of its leading members, Wirathu, ahead of a hearing in the fugitive monk's case expected on Tuesday.
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That rancor spilled over into the election of 1800, when Jefferson's Democratic-Republicans attacked the Adams administration for extending federal powers, passing the Alien and Sedition Acts, and imposing new taxes to fund military growth.
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"The enemy wants once again to create a new plot and use social media and economic issues to foment a new sedition," cleric Ayatollah Mohsen Araki told crowds, the Times of Israel reported, citing Fars.
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Jesus nor the Apostle Paul never endorsed sedition or rebellion or violent uprising against Rome, and in using that scripture he was saying that in order to advance our cause, violence is not the way.
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He specifically pointed out that an article cited in the lawsuit with the headline, "George Soros Needs to be Charged and Arrested for Sedition and Causing Charlottesville," actually had the word "chaos," at the end.
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The activists, detained in April, have been charged with sedition and violating Thailand's computer crimes law for their posts on social media website Facebook that criticized the draft constitution and junta leader Prayuth Chan-ocha.
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In recent weeks the government has threatened to arrest authors of an Amnesty International report which details allegations of torture by the military, and launched a sedition case against a well-known human-rights lawyer.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand on Wednesday charged nine leaders of anti-government protests in 2013 and 2014 with inciting insurrection and sedition in an attempt to oust Yingluck Shinawatra, who was prime minister at the time.
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"The junta's use of its draconian sedition law against critics of the draft constitution creates a climate of fear ahead of the referendum," Brad Adams, Asia director of Human Rights Watch, said in a statement.
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NEW DELHI (AP) — Dozens of lawyers, many with links to India's ruling nationalist party, on Wednesday attacked protesters who have been demanding the release of a university student leader arrested under colonial-era sedition laws.
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The Saudi ambassador to the United Nations, Abdullah bin Yahya Almoalimi, told reporters Monday evening that the 47 prisoners executed on Saturday had been charged in a variety of crimes, including sedition and aiding terrorists.
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But pro-independence parties won a majority, and nominated Puigdemont as their only candidate to be Catalonia's president, despite him facing arrest on charges including rebellion and sedition the moment he returned to Spanish soil.
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The wealthy northeastern region was rocked by nine consecutive nights of protests after nine Catalan separatist leaders were convicted of sedition for leading a failed 2017 bid for independence that included holding a banned referendum.
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MADRID (Reuters) - A judge will give his ruling on Monday on whether eight pro-independence Catalan politicians charged with sedition should be released from custody so they can contest a regional election set for Dec.
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BEIRUT/ANKARA (Reuters) - The main Syrian Kurdish political party said on Sunday that one of its leaders had been arrested in Prague at the behest of Turkey, where a court has charged him with sedition.
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They live freely and openly in Belgium, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, as no authorities outside of Spain have heeded the Spanish justice system's requests to return these officials to face rebellion and sedition charges.
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Robredo is facing possible sedition charges alongside 35 other opponents of Duterte, among them lawyers, priests, lawmakers and a former attorney general, which some officials say could result in a second impeachment attempt against her.
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The Basic Law, the territory's mini-Constitution drafted by mainland legal scholars in the late 1980s, guarantees many individual rights that the colonial treason and sedition laws fail to take into account, Ms. Ng said.
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Second, it was a reaction to an Amnesty International report, which states that in 2015 alone there were 20043 instances of the Sedition Act being used by the government to arrest, investigate, or charge individuals.
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Supporters of Carles Puigdemont, who faces arrest for charges including sedition and rebellion if he returns to Spain, have suggested he could rule via video link — earning him the sobriquet "the hologram president" from detractors.
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The recommendation drew an angry response from the region's leader, who also dismissed moves by the State Attorney - a separate, government-appointed body prosecuting in the case - to push for the lesser charge of sedition.
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His shift away from total national sovereignty over states' rights became complete in 1798 after Congress passed and President John Adams signed the Sedition Act, targeting Republicans and their newspapers by restricting First Amendment rights.
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Mr. Paulsen, who was charged with sedition in 2015 over a Twitter post that accused a government agency that manages Islamic affairs of promoting extremism, said he hoped the new government would drop the charge.
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About 200,000 demonstrators gathered on Tuesday in central Barcelona, according to the local police, to demand the release of two separatist leaders who were sent to prison without bail, pending a trial on sedition charges.
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The 55-year old former journalist potentially faces decades of jail in Spain if he is convicted of the charges leveled against him, including rebellion and sedition, for organizing the referendum and declaring Catalonia's independence.
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The most significant would be national security measures to implement Article 23 of the Basic Law, which provides that Hong Kong must prohibit any act of treason, secession, sedition or subversion against the Chinese government.
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NEW DELHI — The police in India have arrested at least 19 people on charges of sedition for jubilantly celebrating Pakistan's victory over India in the final of a cricket tournament played in Britain this week.
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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani authorities on Monday detained two lawmakers belonging to a rights movement as they and hundreds of supporters across the country gathered to protest the arrest of their leader on charges of sedition.
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The dismissed sedition complaint before the Constitutional Court alleged that the Future Forward Party wanted to destroy the monarchy and was linked to the Illuminati, a secret society that conspiracy theorists believe seeks world domination.
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Nonetheless, China is likely to lean harder on Hong Kong's government, to explore whether it can pass a harsh new anti-sedition law, and to require students to submit to "patriotic education" (ie, party propaganda).
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On Monday, Murillo said an arrest warrant had been issued for one of Morales' key advisers over allegations of terrorism and sedition stemming from comments that Bolivia would turn into a "modern Vietnam" under Áñez.
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Students, academics and journalists took part in a fresh round of demonstrations on Tuesday to protest the arrest for sedition of Kanhaiya Kumar, president of the student union at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in Delhi.
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But while the 2003 protests are remembered as being against the sedition law, they took place on July 1, the anniversary of Hong Kong's handover from British to Chinese control and an annual day of protests.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai police charged eight people with sedition and computer crimes on Thursday, part of fresh wave of arrests as Thailand cracks down on online dissent before a referendum on a military-backed draft constitution.
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But senior clergy have denounced militant Islamist doctrines such as those of al Qaeda or Islamic State, while the government, which vets clerics in Saudi Arabia's 70,000 mosques, has sacked many for encouraging violence or sedition.
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The Speaker of Catalonia's parliament proposed that Carles Puigdemont be reappointed as leader of the region's government, threatening a fresh crisis with Spain, as he is in exile and faces arrest for sedition if he returns.
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Rouhani: Europe has a human rights obligation to act The United Nations Security Council did not address the execution of Nimr, who was convicted of inciting sectarian strife, sedition and other charges after his 2012 arrest.
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Q: You have tried to bring in some progressive legislation in parliament in the form of private member's bills on transgender rights, decriminalization of homosexuality and sedition, which are all a legacy of British colonial rule.
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Vattel said that a mere "sedition" or "insurrection" escalated to a civil war when the rebels fighting against the sovereign had justice on their side, usually as the result of some train of evils or abuses.
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Details: Article 23 of the Basic Law, the mini constitution of Hong Kong, says the territory "shall enact laws on its own to prohibit any act of treason, secession, sedition and subversion" against the Chinese government.
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John Adam's Secretary of State Timothy Pickering, for example, both instructed the attorneys to prosecute cases under the Alien & Sedition Acts and, in one case, to release a British captain whose arrest caused an international incident.
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The prosecution of Tai and his co-defendants could pale in comparison to what some fear will happen if the Hong Kong government, under pressure from China, moves to pass a hugely controversial anti-sedition law.
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The summons comes after Spain's chief prosecutor called Monday for charges of rebellion, sedition and embezzlement to be brought against members of the Catalan pro-independence government and parliament for their roles in the independence bid.
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When John Adams, otherwise a rock of integrity, signed the Alien and Sedition Acts (which made it harder to become a citizen and outlawed writing or speaking against the government), he stained his reputation and presidency.
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On Sunday, the Interior Ministry said it had arrested an Al Jazeera news producer, accusing him of "provoking sedition" on behalf of the Qatar-based broadcaster that it considers a mouthpiece of the banned Muslim Brotherhood.
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"These cases are a strong signal to not just Mahfuz Anam but to all media that if you go beyond the limits that have been set, then you too can be prosecuted for sedition," he said.
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Sunday • The Times's About New York columnist Jim Dwyer moderates a talk with John Strausbaugh, author of "City of Sedition: The History of New York City During the Civil War," at Plymouth Church in Brooklyn Heights.
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There are famous cases, including the [John Peter] Zenger case, in which American patriots were charged with sedition against the British crown, and jurors nullified in those cases because they thought that the law was unfair.
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The speech included what looked like a message that Hong Kong could not postpone indefinitely its legal duty under the Basic Law, its mini-constitution, to implement national security laws against sedition, subversion, secession and treason.
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LONDON — Boris Johnson, Britain's foreign secretary, apologized on Monday for misleading remarks about a British-Iranian woman imprisoned in Iran that her family said could be used to justify, and even prolong, her sentence for sedition.
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CARACAS, Venezuela — Antonio Ledezma, a prominent opposition leader in Venezuela who had been placed under house arrest on sedition charges, escaped on Friday morning and fled to neighboring Colombia, where the authorities allowed him to enter.
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The law also foresees granting amnesty to those convicted of sedition or political activities, provided these were not related to terrorism, did not involve kidnapping or cause serious injury to others, or the use of firearms.
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The Spanish Supreme Court found 12 Catalan secessionist leaders guilty of a different combination of charges including sedition, misuse of public funds and disobedience for their roles in the failed push for independence two years ago.
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The latest: Protestors outraged by the severe sentences for sedition and misuse of public funds filled the streets in cities across the semi-autonomous region and flooded into Barcelona's airport, causing more than 100 flight cancellations.
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The leader, Manzoor Ahmad Pashteen, was arrested in the early hours of Monday morning on five separate charges, including conspiracy and sedition, after giving a speech that officials said was against the Constitution and the state.
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The Hartford Courant reported that because "both [were] anarchists" the state did not require "a decided motive for the killing," even though no charges of sedition or any other illegal activity had been brought against them.
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Sanchez is standing trial for sedition for his role in a failed independence bid in 2017, and the wealthy region's undimmed ambition to split from Spain is among the most emotive campaign issues in the election.
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MADRID — The Spanish Supreme Court on Monday sentenced former leaders of the Catalan independence movement to lengthy prison terms after finding them guilty of sedition for their botched attempt to break away from Spain in 2017.
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While the seven judges of the Supreme Court found the Catalan leaders guilty of sedition, they did not sentence them for rebellion, a crime that could have resulted in prison sentences as long as 25 years.
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Prosecutors are seeking 7 to 25 years in jail for the separatist leaders - nine of whom have been in pre-trial detention for almost two years - over charges of rebellion, sedition and misappropriation of public funds.
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Lam said she would seek to enact contentious national security laws, known as Article 23, "as soon as possible," without giving a specific timetable, that would prohibit acts of treason, secession, sedition and subversion against China.
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In a sign of official concern about the resilience of the protests, Revolutionary Guards commander Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari said he had sent forces to Hamadan, Isfahan and Lorestan provinces to tackle "the new sedition".
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Sanchez is in jail awaiting trial on charges of rebellion and sedition over his role in orchestrating pro-independence protests last year during which national police were trapped inside a Barcelona building and their vehicles destroyed.
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Nuttaa Mahattana, a democracy activist who is facing four sedition charges, said that the reports of ballot irregularities paled in comparison to the overall imbalance built into the Thai political system by the military-backed Constitution.
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On Esquire's website, Charles P. Pierce labeled it nothing less than "armed sedition," while others have demanded that the authorities use the standard term for armed men threatening violence in order to advance a political cause: terrorists.
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Junqueras, the former deputy head of the region, is charged with rebellion, sedition and misuse of public funds for his part in organizing a referendum and declaration of independence that were deemed illegal by Spain's Constitutional Court.
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Its manifesto was a liberal wish-list of 464 initiatives, including repealing the Sedition Act, allowing the press greater freedom, reducing the powers of the prime minister and erecting stronger barriers between the executive and the judiciary.
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That language is similar to what she has used in the past when discussing whether her government would seek to introduce Article 23, the anti-sedition law which was shelved after mass protests against it in 2003.
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"The decision to hold them in custody is absolutely disproportionate as we consider the charges of rebellion and sedition lack any ground, no matter how much the prosecution insists on affirming it," lawyer Jaume Alonso-Cuevillas said.
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"Independent India should have the confidence to scrap the anachronistic sedition law suited for the police state that existed before 1947, and let free speech flourish without fearing its own citizens so much," The Economic Times said.
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In August Divya Spandana (also known as "Ramya"), a South Indian actress, was threatened by a lawyer with charges of sedition under a colonial-era law after she remarked that Pakistan was "a good country, not hell".
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To publicly question or critically discuss the political motivations behind these quotas, especially as an ethnic minority, is to contend with the threat of arrest and imprisonment under the Sedition Act, a holdover from British colonial rule.
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand – An opinion writer and three newspaper executives in Fiji are awaiting a judge&aposs verdict Friday on sedition charges in a case that has major implications for press freedom in the South Pacific nation.
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Already two leaders of the independence movement have been detained on suspicion of sedition for organising a demonstration in Barcelona last month that hindered a police raid against organisers of an unauthorised independence referendum on October 1st.
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Junqueras, who is in custody on allegations of rebellion and sedition, wrote that he would continue to pursue independence if he becomes Catalonia's next president, but also to "build bridges and shake hands" with the Spanish state.
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Legal experts said it would be difficult to prove sedition based on the content of the speech, which did not call for violence, but some said that the authorities were not concerned about making the charge stick.
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" By Wednesday, two more students had been arrested on sedition charges, and a debate over free speech raged in Parliament, with a Congress party lawmaker accusing the government of "trying to stifle the voice of the youth.
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MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's state prosecutor has asked for a custodial sentence for the head of the Catalan police service Josep Lluis Trapero, who is facing charges of sedition, a spokesman for the High Court said on Monday.
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After the act of sedition that culminated in the murder of Jon Snow as a "traitor," it's a case of the pot calling the Castle Black for the once reassuringly martial bureaucracy known as the Night's Watch.
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In a sign of official concern about the resilience of the protests, the Revolutionary Guards commander, Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari, said he had dispatched forces to Hamadan, Isfahan and Lorestan provinces to tackle "the new sedition".
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Thanathorn is accused of breaking article 116 of the Thai criminal code, the equivalent of sedition; article 189, for assisting others who committed a serious crime; and article 215, for an assembly of more than 10 people.
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MANILA (Reuters) - Opponents of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte expressed shock and outrage on Friday at police moves to charge dozens of them with sedition, calling it persecution aimed at stamping out scrutiny of his increasingly powerful rule.
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The main issue has become Catalonia, after the Supreme Court last month imposed harsh prison sentences on nine Catalan separatist leaders for sedition over their role in the illegal referendum and declaration of independence in October 2017.
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The Sedition Act forbade, under the risk of fines and imprisonment, any person or group to speak, write or publish anything considered false, scandalous or malicious that brought Congress and/or the president into contempt or disrepute.
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Accounts vary about the number of arrests and indictments, but most scholars cite 25 arrests and at least 14 verifiable indictments brought under the Sedition Act — mainly against Republican editors and newspapers, since Adams was a Federalist.
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As a result, the core of Indian nationhood is premised upon the centrality of Hindu religion and values, and any opposition to this tenuous narrative has to be violently stamped out or slapped with charges of sedition.
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Declaring Debs a "traitor to his country" for his opposition to America's entry into World War I, the Wilson administration banned socialist publications and jailed party activists—including Debs himself, who was convicted of sedition in 1919.
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Spanish judges may have the final say, as they determine whether separatist politicians are eligible for office even as they await trial on charges of sedition and rebellion brought after they unilaterally declared Catalonia's independence in October.
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SITTWE, Myanmar — Ashin Wirathu, a radical Buddhist monk in Myanmar, has been charged with sedition over what prosecutors say are defamatory remarks he made about the nation's civilian leader, the Nobel laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.
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Earlier on Monday, the country's Supreme Court sentenced a group of nine politicians and activists to between nine and 13 years in prison for sedition, and imposed fines on three others for the lesser charge of disobedience.
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Global human rights watchdogs have noted concerns in recent years over what they see as a growing clampdown on civil society in Pakistan, along with the increased use of sedition and anti-state charges to quell dissent.
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The new Espionage and Sedition Acts brought thousands of people under arrest and surveillance by the nascent FBI, including the Eastman siblings, and forced the closure of The Masses, the magazine that Max had edited since 1912.
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" According to captured minutes from the Deir Ezzor security committee, its members decided to infiltrate the mosques with Baath Party loyalists, "an average of two hundred comrades per mosque, to deal with any case that incites sedition.
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Spain's High Court issued a summons for Puigdemont and 13 members of his sacked administration to testify in Madrid on Thursday and Friday as the court starts processing charges of rebellion, sedition and breach of trust against them.
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One challenge, Chome said, is to decide what type of offenses and charges will be listed in the warrant, as Belgium does not have the equivalent charges of sedition and rebellion that Puigdemont and his associates could face.
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In a separate development that could raise tensions, Catalan police chief Josep Lluis Trapero appeared in Spain's High Court on Friday to answer accusations he committed sedition by failing to enforce a court ban on holding the referendum.
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BARCELONA/MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's state prosecutor accused sacked Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont on Monday of rebellion and sedition as the former regional president traveled to Belgium with other members of his ousted administration and hired a lawyer there.
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As Madrid began direct rule of Catalonia, Attorney General Jose Manuel Maza called for charges of rebellion, sedition, fraud and misuse of funds to be brought against Catalan leaders who organized an illegal referendum on independence from Spain.
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He was detained by German police acting on a European arrest warrant issued by Spain, where Puigdemont is wanted on charges of sedition, rebellion, and misuse of public funds relating to last year's illegal referendum on Catalan independence.
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The four men — Catalonia's former vice-president Oriol Junqueras, former Cabinet member Joaquim Forn, and civic group leaders Jordi Sanchez and Jordi Cuixart — face charges including sedition for their role in the unauthorized independence vote on Oct. 1.
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" Fahmi's lawyer Syahredzan Johan says international criticism has been somewhat effective in the past, particularly in halting use of the sedition act, but prosecutions have also switched to using newer legislation without "the same stigma and colonial baggage.
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Thousands took to the streets early this year in India's biggest nationwide student protests in 25 years after the arrest of a student accused of sedition, prompting accusations that Modi's government was clamping down on freedom of expression.
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Spain&aposs state prosecutor said Monday that he would seek charges of rebellion, sedition and embezzlement against members of Catalonia&aposs ousted secessionist government, pushing the crisis over the region&aposs independence declaration into an uncertain new phase.
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NEW DELHI — The police in New Delhi arrested a former university lecturer on suspicion of sedition early Tuesday, the second arrest in a week on the colonial-era charge, as student and teacher protests against the government continued.
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"The combination of sedition charges and military detentions [against dissidents] suggests that the junta wants to stifle information and turn up the heat on Thai voters so they accept a constitution that would prolong military control," Adams continued.
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The northeastern region has been hit by seven consecutive nights of sometimes violent protests following the jailing last week of nine Catalan separatists found guilty of sedition over their role in leading a failed 2017 bid for independence.
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New Delhi (CNN)A student leader whose arrest last month on sedition charges sparked massive protests in India has vowed to protect free speech in the world's largest democracy as it engages in an intense civil rights debate.
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The Madrid High Court upped the stakes on Monday in Spain's worst political crisis in decades, moving to thwart Catalonia's independence push by jailing the heads of its two main separatist groups pending an investigation for alleged sedition.
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The same thing happened to pro-social anti-sedition psyop Pokémon Go, which supposedly just had no idea that people wouldn't like allowing Pikachu a totalitarian look into their Google accounts until they had to amend it later.
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On Tuesday, Theerawan Charoensuk, 57, was charged with sedition for posting a picture on Facebook of herself holding a red plastic bowl - a Thai New Year gift from ousted former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra and his sister, Yingluck.
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He and his cohorts declared independence last fall, prompting the central government in Madrid to suspend their government, pursue them for sedition, and call new elections for the region, in hopes of a political reshuffle in its favor.
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Prayuth's party members have in some cases accused rivals of insufficient loyalty to the monarchy, and the leader of the opposition Future Forward Party - also part of the Democratic Front - faces police charges of sedition and cyber crime.
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Mr. Abrams, who represented The Times in the 1971 Pentagon Papers case, noted that President John Adams signed the Sedition Act of 1798, allowing for the prosecution of Americans who made political statements deemed malicious by the government.
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The Catalan parliament speaker, Carmen Forcadell, and five regional lawmakers testified on Thursday on charges of sedition, rebellion and misuse of public funds The prosecutor asked the judge to release two other regional lawmakers, according to the newspaper.
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NIAMEY (Reuters) - A Niger opposition leader is to go on trial on Tuesday on charges of incitement to violence and sedition, his lawyer said, in a case that critics say highlights growing repression under President Mahamadou Issoufou's government.
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LA PAZ (Reuters) - Bolivian prosecutors on Wednesday issued an arrest warrant for exiled former president Evo Morales over allegations of sedition and terrorism related to accusations from the interim government that he has been stirring unrest since resigning.
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Anez said the Bolivian government would not tolerate people "trying to cover up and protect criminals who have committed crimes of sedition, armed uprising and terrorism" and that Bolivia would not be a "colony" of any other country.
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Nine protest leaders, including Suthep Taugsuban, face eight charges over their roles in the bloody street protests, including insurrection, sedition, and obstructing a 2014 general election, said Prayut Bejraguna, a deputy spokesman for the office of the attorney-general.
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Oriol Junqueras, the Catalan regional government's former deputy leader, said in emailed answers to questions that the prison sentences imposed on him and eight others on charges of sedition only made them and their movement stronger and more determined.
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Hariri, who is backed by Saudi Arabia, told a news conference it was not up to him to agree or disagree with the terrorist listing, but that he wanted to continue meetings with Hezbollah "to avoid sedition" in Lebanon.
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And while they decry how Trump is endangering them and antagonistic to them, they should be happy he's not doing to them what other presidents have done, like passing sedition acts against journalists or having the CIA wiretap them.
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" Saudi Arabia's practices are consistent with its constitution, which specifically allows the prohibition of speech that fosters "sedition or division," as well as speech that harms "the state's security and its public relations" — or that "detracts from man's dignity.
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Before he entered the White House, Trump himself called for reinstating some version of the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798, which played a key role in limiting the nation's second president, John Adams, to an embarrassing single term.
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What is clear is that the decision on November 2nd by a high-court judge to jail eight members of the sacked Catalan government, pending trial on charges of rebellion, sedition and misappropriation of funds, will have political consequences.
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Over all of this -- Mallet's visa refusal, Badiucao's cancelled show, Andy Chan's banned party, and all the protests and demonstrations they inspired -- hangs a long delayed anti-sedition provision contained within the Basic Law, the city's de facto constitution.
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MADRID, Oct 16 (Reuters) - Spain's state prosecutor has asked for a custodial sentence for the head of the Catalan police service Josep Lluis Trapero, who is facing charges of sedition, a spokesman for the High Court said on Monday.
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Thanathorn, a charismatic billionaire who founded the party, already faces two criminal charges, one for computer crimes over a speech he posted on Facebook criticizing the junta and another for sedition for allegedly aiding anti-junta protesters in 2015.
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All of this points to the paradox of Mr. Puigdemont's strange existence since he fled Spain for Belgium in October after the authorities disbanded his government and sought his arrest on charges of sedition for leading Catalonia's independence drive.
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MADRID/BARCELONA (Reuters) - Spain's Supreme Court on Monday sentenced nine Catalan separatist leaders to up to 13 years in prison for sedition over their role in a failed independence bid, dividing opinion both in the region and across Spain.
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MADRID (Reuters) - The Catalan parliament's speaker and five lawmakers will appear before Spain's Supreme Court in Madrid on Thursday to answer charges of rebellion and sedition for their roles in staging a banned referendum on Catalonia's independence last month.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The Supreme Court on Friday refused to consider a bail plea from a left-wing student leader whose arrest for sedition triggered demonstrations in universities across the country against Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ruling nationalist group.
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The two men, former army generals, also faced sedition and mutiny charges for their roles in the 1979 military coup that brought them to power and in the 1980 massacre of antigovernment demonstrators in the southwestern city of Kwangju.
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The two men, former army generals, also faced sedition and mutiny charges for their roles in the 1979 military coup that brought them to power and in the 1980 massacre of antigovernment demonstrators in the southwestern city of Gwangju.
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MADRID (Reuters) - Amnesty International on Tuesday called for the immediate release of two jailed Catalan leaders, saying that what it described as a "vague" and "overly broad" interpretation of sedition could have a chilling effect on protests across Spain.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India opposition politicians and media called for a colonial-era sedition law to be scrapped on Wednesday, accusing authorities of trying to suppress dissent after it was invoked against students marking the execution of a Kashmiri militant.
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Other speakers at the rally protested against remarks made by Myanmar's religious minister last month in which he allegedly blamed the military-controlled Home Affairs ministry for the government's failure to arrest several nationalist figures for sedition and inciting violence.
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Civil rights activist Jordi Cuixart and eight others were last week convicted of sedition over their failed 2017 independence bid and jailed for up to 13 years, terms that convulsed Spain's political landscape and added new impetus to the secessionist movement.
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After all, the United States has been down that road before, most notably with the Sedition Acts of 1798 and 1918 that sought to curb speech that criticized the government in a time of war and, yes, penalize false statements.
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Image 2 of 2 WELLINGTON, New Zealand – An opinion writer and three newspaper executives in Fiji have been found not guilty of sedition in a preliminary ruling, although a judge has yet to make a final decision in the case.
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India's sedition laws were drafted by its British colonial rulers to suppress the country's freedom struggle, and the Supreme Court has said in recent years the laws should be invoked only when there is actual evidence of incitement to violence.
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See also "Telling truth to power still no easy task for Malaysia's revved up media" Cartoonist Zulkiflee Anwar Ulhaque, who has been arrested several times and charged for various crimes, including sedition, focused much of his work on Najib's wife.
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Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit, the leader of the youth-oriented Future Forward Party which did surprisingly well in the vote, was charged on Saturday with sedition on a junta complaint dating back to 2015 - a case that could see his party disbanded.
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The Catalan leader, ousted by Madrid and facing charges of rebellion and sedition as well as wasting money on a referendum on independence, has been staying since his arrival in Belgium on Monday at the 3-star Chambord Hotel, staff said.
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Meanwhile, those who express opposition to military rule — the current form of government and one that has been a staple throughout the nation's 19 army coups since 1932 — can get slapped with sedition charges that carry a seven-year jail term.
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Warrants for rebellion, sedition, misuse of public funds, disobedience and breach of trust relating to Catalonia's independence campaign concern Puigdemont and four of his associates who fled to Belgium after Madrid's central government imposed direct rule in the autonomous region.
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The regional Police Commissioner, Josep Lluís Traper Álvarez, was already facing an investigation for sedition for his inaction during the preparations for the October 1 independence referendum that a Spanish court had deemed illegal; now he is out of a job.
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To the issue of criminality, let there be no doubt: Even a layman's familiarity of the simplest variety leaves you with the certitude that the author committed sedition; any decent dictionary will define that crime as resistance to a lawful authority.
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Sala, whose organization is allied with Macri's predecessor and political foe Christina Fernandez, was initially arrested and charged with "sedition" in January while protesting a change Morales, a Macri ally, had made to the public housing funding program to tighten controls.
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The head of the ERC and former deputy to Puigdemont, Oriol Junqueras, will campaign for his party from a prison cell after being detained with other cabinet members who remained in Spain and pending trial on sedition and rebellion charges.
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The summons came after Spain's chief prosecutor called for charges of rebellion, sedition and embezzlement to be brought against Puigdemont and other members of the Catalan government and parliament for their roles in a pro-independence movement and declaration of independence.
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Human Rights Watch called on the Singapore government to amend or repeal in entirety laws that it said were too broadly worded and used to "arrest, harass, and prosecute critical voices," including the Sedition Act and the Public Order Act.
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If Shakespeare toed a delicate line around sedition in his writing, as both Greenblatt and Asquith assert, it implies that the politics of literature in his time mattered—that those in power cared what was said in stories and plays.
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Netiwit, who along with 38 others were charged with sedition for violating a ban on public assembly earlier this year, said that there is concern among activists that the military government will simply refuse to hand over power following democratic elections.
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She said that Hong Kong citizens now have many civil rights enshrined in a bill of rights that the British added to the city's ordinances near the end of their rule, but that the treason and sedition ordinances were never updated.
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Hong Kong already has laws against treason and sedition, but critics of Article 23 believe the criminalization of subversion and secession could enable the prosecution of a wide range of dissenting voices, particularly those who advocate or endorse Hong Kong independence.
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He is in jail in Madrid pending his sedition trial and has repeatedly been denied bail by the judge leading the investigation into how separatist leaders held a referendum and declared unilateral independence in October, in violation of Spain's Constitution.
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The government hasn't been afraid of using these powers, either: Web publishers have been jailed for sedition and their websites ordered to be shut down, while bloggers have been sued for defamation or found to be in contempt of court.
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On Friday, judges from the Spanish Supreme Court rejected an appeal by the Esquerra leader, Oriol Junqueras, who has been in jail in Madrid since early November, pending his trial on charges of misuse of public funds, sedition and rebellion.
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The argument echoed one made by Carles Puigdemont, the region's former leader, when he fled to Belgium in October after Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy of Spain disbanded the regional government and the authorities sought Mr. Puigdemont's arrest on sedition charges.
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MADRID/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Spain on Friday issued an arrest warrant on sedition and other charges against Carles Puigdemont, tightening the judicial net around the former Catalan leader who went Brussels after his government was sacked over a declaration of independence.
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A British woman of Iranian descent incarcerated in Iran on sedition charges since 2016 was granted a three-day furlough on Thursday to see her young daughter and other relatives, a break in a bitter dispute between Britain and Iran.
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On Thursday, a handful of Catalan lawmakers are set to appear before the Spanish Supreme Court to face accusations of rebellion, sedition and misuse of public funds for organizing an independence referendum last month despite its being declared illegal by Spain.
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There were a number of reasons for that, including that the US was in the midst of World War I and Congress had passed a law -- the Sedition Act, since largely repealed -- that made it illegal to criticize the government.
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The daily warnings of the regime's officials about a "sedition more dangerous than the one in 85033," a clear reference to the 2009 popular uprising that shook the foundation of the regime, has exposed Tehran's fears of another national uprising.
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The most prominent of the 12 Catalan leaders on trial would be found guilty of charges of sedition and misuse of public funds but none would be convicted and sentenced for the more severe charge of rebellion, the source told Reuters.
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Mr. Junqueras is serving a 13-year prison sentence for sedition, after being sentenced last year by the Spanish Supreme Court as one of the former members of the Catalan government that unsuccessfully sought to declare independence in October 2017.
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The case against Kumar is under the colonial-era sedition law and has fuelled fears that Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party is creating a climate of fear in the country and is promoting a fiercely nationalist agenda aimed at the minority groups.
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In addition to the opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim, who is in jail on what many people believe are trumped-up sodomy charges, at least 18 opposition lawmakers have been investigated for or charged with sedition and other offenses since 2013.
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Bolivian prosecutors issued an arrest warrant against him on Wednesday for the crimes of sedition, terrorism and terrorist financing, promoted by the government of Jeanine Áñez, a former senator and opponent of Morales who stepped in as interim president in November.
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Bangkok, Thailand (CNN)The leader of a popular new party that has positioned itself as a progressive opponent to Thailand's military government was charged with sedition on Saturday, the latest legal action lodged against the billionaire since contested elections in March.
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The new case accuses Thanathorn of breaking article 116 of the Thai criminal code, the so-called sedition law; article 189, for assisting others who committed a serious crime; and article 215, for unlawful assembly of more than 10 people.
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LA PAZ (Reuters) - Bolivia's attorney general said on Friday that his office has opened a probe into former President Evo Morales for alleged sedition and terrorism, related to accusations from the interim government that he has been stirring unrest since resigning.
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Diplomatic relations between India and Pakistan are breaking down; Kashmiri students are being rounded up and attacked; other young people have been charged with sedition for criticizing the Indian Army; and Indians are lashing out at Pakistani civilians, including Bollywood actors.
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