Manipur Sedition

The Manipur government has warned people against spreading fake news and misinformation on social media amid the sensitive law and order situation in the state.

Leichombam Erendro, a Manipur-based political activist arrested in May on charges ofsedition - for writing "cow dung and cow urine don't work" on Facebook - wasreleased from jail on Monday evening, following an order from the Supreme Court.

Two Manipur journalists charged with sedition and arrested under stringent anti-terror law UAPA - in connection with an article published in The Frontier Manipur, a local news website - have said the "unverified" article was published due to their "oversight"

Manipur activist Erendro Leichombam was charged by the state police on Tuesday with sedition for a social media post that had a picture of the newly elected Rajya Sabha MP - Sanajaoba Leishemba. The titular king of Manipur and a BJP leader, Sanajaoba Leishemba is seen in the photo bowing down with his hands folded in front of Union Home Minister Am...

The Supreme Court has sought replies from Uttar Pradesh, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh and Manipur on a plea by JNU student and anti-CAA activist Sharjeel Imam seeking clubbing of multiple FIRs levelling sedition charges against him for allegedly making inflammatory speeches.

Two people, including the younger brother of Sharjeel Imam, have been taken into custody as the police widened its hunt for the Jawaharlal Nehru University student for his alleged remarks calling for the whole of the northeast to be severed from the rest of India. His alleged comments have invited police cases, including sedition, across several st...

The Manipur police has lodged an FIR against former JNU student Sharjeel Imam for his "seditious" comment in the wake of the amended Citizenship Act.

A 23-year-old student leader from Manipur who was arrested in Delhi last week on sedition charges is likely to be taken to a court in state capital Imphal on Tuesday. Veewon Thokchom's plea against his transit remand to Imphal was rejected by a court in the national capital.

The Manipur government has warned people against spreading fake news and misinformation on social media amid the sensitive law and order situation in the state.

Leichombam Erendro, a Manipur-based political activist arrested in May on charges ofsedition - for writing "cow dung and cow urine don't work" on Facebook - wasreleased from jail on Monday evening, following an order from the Supreme Court.

Two Manipur journalists charged with sedition and arrested under stringent anti-terror law UAPA - in connection with an article published in The Frontier Manipur, a local news website - have said the "unverified" article was published due to their "oversight"

Manipur activist Erendro Leichombam was charged by the state police on Tuesday with sedition for a social media post that had a picture of the newly elected Rajya Sabha MP - Sanajaoba Leishemba. The titular king of Manipur and a BJP leader, Sanajaoba Leishemba is seen in the photo bowing down with his hands folded in front of Union Home Minister Am...

The Supreme Court has sought replies from Uttar Pradesh, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh and Manipur on a plea by JNU student and anti-CAA activist Sharjeel Imam seeking clubbing of multiple FIRs levelling sedition charges against him for allegedly making inflammatory speeches.

Two people, including the younger brother of Sharjeel Imam, have been taken into custody as the police widened its hunt for the Jawaharlal Nehru University student for his alleged remarks calling for the whole of the northeast to be severed from the rest of India. His alleged comments have invited police cases, including sedition, across several st...

The Manipur police has lodged an FIR against former JNU student Sharjeel Imam for his "seditious" comment in the wake of the amended Citizenship Act.

A 23-year-old student leader from Manipur who was arrested in Delhi last week on sedition charges is likely to be taken to a court in state capital Imphal on Tuesday. Veewon Thokchom's plea against his transit remand to Imphal was rejected by a court in the national capital.