The phrase "sedition against" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe illegal or treasonous actions taken against the government. For example: "The young man was arrested for sedition against the state."
They are charged with conspiracy to commit sedition against the government.
But on August 25th the court upheld a conviction for sedition against Lim Guan Eng, a prominent DAP member of Parliament, and packed him off to prison.
"I warn those individuals, who are cooperating with outsiders, not to use the atmosphere for creating sedition against the Revolution and the sacred system of the Islamic Republic," he said.
While he was reporting from Russia, his articles in the Masses, and especially the headline "Knit a strait-jacket for your soldier boy", had inspired an indictment for sedition against the magazine.
After Laisenia Qarase, the prime minister, had caved in to all his main demands, he deposed him anyway.In the days before the coup, legislation he opposed was dropped, the Australian-born police commissioner scooted abroad, and the government even declared a willingness to lean on the public prosecutor to drop charges of "sedition" against the commander.
(The other argument, that guns must be kept in place in order to oppose tyrants, is itself astounding: our children's lives must be in perpetual danger so that someone can reserve the right to commit violent sedition against our democracy. As Abraham Lincoln said about a similar piece of secessionist blackmail, "That is cool").
Yet following the sedition charge against Mr Kumar in connection with the rally, both lecturers and students have strongly criticised the government's efforts to quell dissent.
The minister, Omar Abdullah, said on Twitter: "Sedition charge against Kashmiri students is an unacceptably harsh punishment that will ruin their futures & will further alienate them.
I believe what the students did was wrong & misguided but they certainly didn't deserve to have charges of sedition slapped against them".
The new government has withdrawn sedition charges against a top editor of the daily newspaper Kantipur and two executives of a company that publishes it.
In May 1961, with the approval of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, the remaining sedition charges against the Powells and Mr. Schuman were dropped.
