Rights activists have long criticized Malaysia's anti-sedition law as a tool to curb democratic dissent.
The outspoken Malaysian opposition MP was fined last month for disseminating false news and committing sedition.
Kim was charged with sedition and nearly executed, but again the United States intervened.
James Yee, a Muslim chaplain serving in Guantanamo, was arrested on suspicion of sedition and espionage.
Whatever the motivation for federal officials giving Shariah-Compliant Finance the "see-no-evil" treatment, sedition is sedition.
Now Mr Estrada is threatening to have Mr Gordon charged with sedition and treason.
First, Islamism is not about religion but about political sedition and must be treated as such.
Subterfuge, subversion and sedition in the name of shariah are the tradecraft of the Muslim Brotherhood.
The use of Malaysia's Sedition Act will likely attract substantial attention, both in and outside the country.
The French parliament made it a crime not just to incite sedition but also to justify it.
Moreover, its Supreme Court has long held that hate speech can be tried under criminal sedition laws.
The 38-year-old oppositionist was freed in August after serving one year in prison for sedition and publishing false news.
The acting editor of a pro-opposition newspaper in Bangladesh has been arrested on several charges, including sedition, police say.
Since Lim got the maximum fine for sedition, there is speculation that Mohtar wants to see him behind bars.
Thomas Jefferson called off all prosecutions under the Sedition Act when he became president, and pardoned those already convicted.
He already faced charges of sedition and a retrial for conspiracy to murder.
"There is no place for sedition in a democracy, " said Andrew Aeria, a political-science professor at University Malaysia's Sarawak campus.
But for the media, in Israel and throughout the West, it is dangerous sedition that must be marginalized and destroyed.
Also on Thursday, Police detained three better-known activists Haris Ibrahim, Tian Chua and Tamrin Ghafar for questioning under the country's contentious sedition law.
Mr. Chua wrote on Twitter that police detained him at an airport and told him he was being held for sedition.
Iraqi military spokesman Maj Gen Qassim al-Moussawi said the aim of the attacks was "to create sedition among the Iraqi people".
Sedition as defined by Malaysian law includes promoting hatred against the government.
This uncertainty reminds me of a law in Hong Kong against sedition.
On his return to Pakistan in 1993, he is arrested and jailed for about half a year on murder and sedition charges.
From the Alien and Sedition Acts and the Missouri Compromise to the election of Abraham Lincoln, every development is given careful study.
The bill makes sedition a crime that can carry a jail sentence.
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For many years, our effort to defeat Soviet Communism featured a concerted counter-intelligence (CI) effort aimed at ferreting out and defeating such sedition.
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Consequently, Shariah-Compliant Finance involves some or all of the following crimes: racketeering, anti-trust, securities and consumer fraud, material support for terror and sedition.
The situation is more polarised than ever, with the government calling indigenous protesters extremists and their leader, Alberto Pizango, being charged with sedition and rebellion.
He faces charges including sedition and unlawful publication of a conversation that led to the resignation of the head judge of a war crimes tribunal.
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