Sentence examples for sedition in from inspiring English sources

Sedition "in law is a deliberate crime", he admitted, but it "appears to me to be the highest duty of a citizen".

Dr. Sen, 61, was convicted of sedition in December.

"But there is a lot of sedition in this book," Ms. Grisby Bates said.

Rome suppressed an uprising of serfs in Etruscan Volsinii in 265 and a sedition in Patavium in 175.

Colin Grant includes the story of Leonard Howell, imprisoned for two years for sedition in Jamaica in 1933.

When these talks proved fruitless and Makarios was arrested for sedition in March 1956 and exiled to the Seychelles, the EOKA intensified its violent campaign.

Activist Hu Jia, released this year after serving three and a half years in jail for sedition, said in a public letter that the proposals would legalise acts by the police that are now illegal but largely ignored, such as not giving prompt notification to relatives of anyone detained.

The office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights is one of many international organisations and NGOs to have condemned the continued use of the Sedition Act in general, and its use in this case in particular.Another group, the Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development, accused the Malaysian government of "an ongoing systematic persecution" of the opposition.

The same Internet flash lobby has spontaneously organized over free access to academic research, a Wikipedia slander law in Malaysia, and a sedition law in the Philippines.

Roy narrowly avoided sedition charges in 2010 after making remarks in support of Kashmiri independence.

Jeffrey L. Pasley rightly celebrates the newspaper editor Thomas Greenleaf, a man on "John Adams's enemy list," whose opposition to the Federalists in general and to the Sedition Act in particular helped to establish modern legal definitions of freedom of the press.