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Authorities in Assam have arrested 81 individuals accused of anti-national activities post-Pahalgam attack. Chief Minister ...
The Alien and Sedition Acts was enacted by John Adams’s Federalist administration in preparation for a war that didn’t actually happen.
Thomas Jefferson understood that free speech and a free press were essential in a republic, writes John A. Ragosta.
This guide explains what sedition is, what happens if you are charged with this offense and what defenses you can raise. Sedition refers to the federal criminal offense of seditious conspiracy.
Perhaps for just that reason, sedition charges have been used only rarely over the decades, reserved for select groups of defendants who prosecutors argued uniquely threatened the government.
A leader of the Proud Boys convicted of seditious conspiracy for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack intends to seek a pardon from President-elect Trump. Joe Biggs, a Florida Proud Boy and ...
A 22-year-old trainee worker was arrested for allegedly writing 'Pakistan Zindabad' on a machine at a private company in ...
Mahmudabad has been barred from writing or speaking about the recent India-Pakistan war or the police proceedings against him ...
It was the first sedition case targeting journalists in Hong Kong since the former British colony returned to Chinese rule in 1997. Their convictions came nearly three years after hundreds of ...
Police in Lucknow, India, have filed a sedition case against folk singer Neha Singh Rathore for her social media posts targeting a particular faith community in the wake of the Pahalgam tragedy. The ...
HONG KONG — Two journalists who led a pro-democracy newspaper in Hong Kong were convicted of sedition Thursday, in a verdict that could have profound implications for press freedom in the ...
Known collectively as the Alien and Sedition Acts, they consisted of the Alien Act, Sedition Act, Naturalization Act, and Alien Enemies Act. Although these laws continue to pop up regularly in ...