Sedition

The founder of the far-right group Oath Keepers and 10 others were indicted for seditious conspiracy in the January 6, 2021 assault on the US Capitol, the Justice Department announced Thursday.

The Hong Kong government is expanding its use of a long-dormant sedition law in what some lawyers and democracy advocates say is intensifying a squeeze on press freedom.

Kalicharan Maharaj, a Hindu religious leader from Maharashtra who insulted Mahatma Gandhi and praised his assassin, Nathuram Godse, has been arrested by the Chhattisgarh Police from Madhya Pradesh's Khajuraho and charged with sedition.

Journalists from Assam's Barak Valley on Tuesday demanded that sedition charges slapped against the editor of a local news portal for an editorial he wrote be immediately revoked.

"There is a state which is distributing UAPA (Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act) and sedition charges like a 'Prasad' from God we don't want to pray to," Swara Bhasker said.

High Court issued notice to Delhi Police on bail plea of Sharjeel Imam, accused in a case related to alleged inflammatory and instigating speeches during protests against Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and National Register of Citizens (NRC).

Sharjeel Imam's speech at the Aligarh Muslim University neither gave the call for anyone to bear arms nor incited any violence as a result of it, the Allahabad High Court has said granting him bail in a sedition case.

Actor Kangana Ranaut's Padma Shri should be withdrawn and she should be charged with sedition, several political parties have said in a snowballing controversy over her comment that India won true independence in 2014.

Shiv Sena leader Neelam Gorhe today said actor Kangana Ranaut should face a sedition case for terming India's independence as "alms", and her Padma Shri award should be revoked.

Myanmar's junta has charged a US journalist detained since May with sedition and terrorism, which carry a maximum sentence of life imprisonment, his lawyer said Wednesday.

The Supreme Court has quashed the Kerala High Court order which discharged an accused, arrested for his alleged Maoist links, for the purported offences including sedition and under the provisions of the anti-terror law.

A Congress MLA on Tuesday wrote to Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel demanding the removal of Bilaspur district collector in Chhattisgarh for "neglecting" and "disrespecting" public representatives while inviting them to the Rajyotsav

The Bombay High Court has granted anticipatory bail to a 22-year-olf student of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, who was charged with sedition last year for allegedly shouting slogans in support of jailed JNU student Sharjeel Imam

Sedition charge has been invoked against three men who were arrested in UP's Noida for allegedly raising pro-Pakistan slogans during an Eid Milad un Nabi procession, police officials said on Friday.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said on Thursday that sedition law will be invoked against those celebrating Pakistan's victory against India in the recent T20 World Cup match.

The founder of the far-right group Oath Keepers and 10 others were indicted for seditious conspiracy in the January 6, 2021 assault on the US Capitol, the Justice Department announced Thursday.

The Hong Kong government is expanding its use of a long-dormant sedition law in what some lawyers and democracy advocates say is intensifying a squeeze on press freedom.

Kalicharan Maharaj, a Hindu religious leader from Maharashtra who insulted Mahatma Gandhi and praised his assassin, Nathuram Godse, has been arrested by the Chhattisgarh Police from Madhya Pradesh's Khajuraho and charged with sedition.

Journalists from Assam's Barak Valley on Tuesday demanded that sedition charges slapped against the editor of a local news portal for an editorial he wrote be immediately revoked.

"There is a state which is distributing UAPA (Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act) and sedition charges like a 'Prasad' from God we don't want to pray to," Swara Bhasker said.

High Court issued notice to Delhi Police on bail plea of Sharjeel Imam, accused in a case related to alleged inflammatory and instigating speeches during protests against Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and National Register of Citizens (NRC).

Sharjeel Imam's speech at the Aligarh Muslim University neither gave the call for anyone to bear arms nor incited any violence as a result of it, the Allahabad High Court has said granting him bail in a sedition case.

Actor Kangana Ranaut's Padma Shri should be withdrawn and she should be charged with sedition, several political parties have said in a snowballing controversy over her comment that India won true independence in 2014.

Shiv Sena leader Neelam Gorhe today said actor Kangana Ranaut should face a sedition case for terming India's independence as "alms", and her Padma Shri award should be revoked.

Myanmar's junta has charged a US journalist detained since May with sedition and terrorism, which carry a maximum sentence of life imprisonment, his lawyer said Wednesday.

The Supreme Court has quashed the Kerala High Court order which discharged an accused, arrested for his alleged Maoist links, for the purported offences including sedition and under the provisions of the anti-terror law.

A Congress MLA on Tuesday wrote to Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel demanding the removal of Bilaspur district collector in Chhattisgarh for "neglecting" and "disrespecting" public representatives while inviting them to the Rajyotsav

The Bombay High Court has granted anticipatory bail to a 22-year-olf student of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, who was charged with sedition last year for allegedly shouting slogans in support of jailed JNU student Sharjeel Imam

Sedition charge has been invoked against three men who were arrested in UP's Noida for allegedly raising pro-Pakistan slogans during an Eid Milad un Nabi procession, police officials said on Friday.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said on Thursday that sedition law will be invoked against those celebrating Pakistan's victory against India in the recent T20 World Cup match.