Sentence examples for sedition for from inspiring English sources

Fourteen activists were charged with sedition for criticising the NCPO in June.

In 1918, Debs was sentenced to ten years in prison, on charges of sedition, for speeches like that.

The soldier pressed charges and Blake was put on trial for sedition for having supposedly muttered 'damn the King'.

In Malaysia, a prominent Malay Muslim leader, Abdullah Zaik Abdul Rahman, has been charged with sedition for accusing ethnic Chinese, a minority in Malaysia, of being "trespassers".

Two months ago, a group of students and a local journalist were arrested in Baluchistan province and charged with sedition for distributing calendars mocking the army.

This month courts are pondering the prosecution of Indian novelist and activist Arundhati Roy for sedition, for daring to question the place of Kashmir within India.

Yet, after a close general election last year, a number of opposition politicians face charges for sedition or for breaches of the law on assembly.

Last month, the Israeli Supreme Court upheld his conviction on a sedition charge for distributing a poster that advocated violence against Arabs.

He was later jailed under the Sedition Act for criticizing the government, but won re-election from his cell.

Junaid pointed to India, where the cartoonist Aseem Trivedi was recently slapped with sedition charges for insulting the national emblem in a cartoon about corruption.

A newspaper editor was charged with sedition last month for a juicy story about Mr Khama being involved in a car crash.