Sentence examples for seditious statements from inspiring English sources
It defines seditious statements as any that "excite[s] disaffection…against any Government" or "against the administration of justice in Malaysia" or "promote[s] feelings of ill will and hostility between different races or classes of the population in Malaysia".
He was arrested again in 1971, and in 1996 a court sentenced him to a deferred jail term for alleged seditious statements about the Turkish government's oppression of the Kurdish people.
A fierce debate has erupted here over a government proposal to lengthen jail terms and increase fines for people who make "seditious" statements, even over the Internet, and to allow some police searches and seizures without a warrant.
4 Sedition Debate in Hong Kong A fierce debate has erupted over a government proposal to lengthen jail terms and increase fines for people who make "seditious" statements, even over the Internet, and to allow some police searches and seizures without a warrant.
These acts prohibited freedom of assembly for groups such as the radical London Corresponding Society (LCS) and encouraged indictments against radicals for "libelous and seditious" statements.
None of these statements is seditious, in the usual sense, in that none of them advocated the government's overthrow.Yet Malaysia's sedition law is almost comically broad.
For certain criminal charges of libel, such as seditious libel, the truth or falsity of the statements was immaterial, as such laws were intended to maintain public support of the government and true statements could damage this support even more than false ones.
Cromwell argued that Denny was guilty of scandalum magnatum, slander against a peer of the realm, because his statement implied that Cromwell himself was seditious or had seditious tendencies.
When Cooper, who served as his own counsel, tried to prove that everything he said about Adams was true (since only false statements defaming the government were, by the terms of the act, seditious), the court refused his request to subpoena the President, found the printer guilty, and sentenced him to six months in prison.
But the seditious, satirical spirit is intact.
