Sedition from the right came to a head in General José Sanjurjo's pronunciamiento in Sevilla (August 10, 1932).
So determined was the further education minister to counter any sedition from Alan Tuckett, boss of Niace, the voice of adult education, when he heard that the latter was to appear on a Radio 4 education show last night, that he told programme staff he intended to interrupt a dinner - in Cyprus, no less - to take part.
The ageing Elizabeth I was an embattled, heirless monarch, under threat from sedition at home, from the Spanish, from the Irish and, most bitterly, from the Earl of Essex, the very man sent to quell them.By voracious reading and a sharp eye for detail, Mr Shapiro helps us hear the plays through a buzz of contemporary voices religious, loyal, sceptical, iconoclastic, seditious.
He said he plans to demand the repeal of the sedition provision from the law.
The court found that the cleric was not the leader of the Jemaah Islamiyah terrorist organization, and it sentenced him to four years for sedition, arising from his support for an Islamic state.
His paper was selling like hotcakes; in the months before the government shut it down, the circulation had jumped six-fold, to 200,000 copies daily.He was detained on charges of sedition, stemming from the publication last December of a series of Skype conversations between the chairman of Bangladesh's war-crimes tribunal and a Brussels-based lawyer.
From all old Tories; from aristocrats Good Lord deliver us.... From the sedition act, and from all other evil acts Good Lord deliver us.
Her merciful Edict of Amboise (March 1560) was followed in May by that of Romorantin, which distinguished heresy from sedition, thereby detaching faith from allegiance.
Hong Kong currently has a sedition law dating from colonial times that prohibits people from bringing the government "into hatred or contempt," but it has not been enforced for years.
The Sedition Act, dating from 1948, is so outmoded that the government itself promised in 2012 to remove it from the statute book.
As he describes it, early Islamic lore (whose precedents can't be ignored) is overwhelmingly concerned with the avoidance of fitna, a term that can mean many undesirable things from sedition to confusion to war or anarchy; Islam deplores (though you can argue about how severely it seeks to punish) any kind of speech that leads to or in itself amounts to fitna.
