The proposed amendments also came with the rule to allow commoners to criticise the Sultans, even the Yang di-Pertuan Agong without fear of the Sedition Act, with the exception of questioning the legitimacy of the monarchy of Malaysia.
During the 65th Congress, both bodies passed the Sedition Act which criminalized certain kinds of polital dissent in the United States.
On 23 November 2007, three HINDRAF, P. Uthayakumar, Waytha Moorthy, and V. Ganabathirau, were arrested and charged under the Sedition Act.
The nine main chiefs or Alaha were also arrested and charged under the Sedition Act for organising secret meetings.
The Mother's Movement was involved in the Great Sedition Trial of 1944, in which the government charged an assortment of 30 heterogeneous individuals with violations of the Smith Act of 1940 and the Sedition Act of 1917; the defendants were held to be pro-fascist participants in a Nazi conspiracy.
Benjamin Franklin Bache (b. 1769, d. 1798 during the Philadelphia yellow fever epidemic of 1798.), a publisher, he was jailed and awaiting trial under the Sedition Act.
Sedition Act 1661, an English statute that largely relates to treason
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Alien and Sedition Acts, including the Sedition Act of 1798, laws passed by the United States Congress
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:Trade: Geoffrey R. Stone, Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism
The Smith Act was written after the Pennsylvania Sedition Act, but both were created during the Cold War, during the age of Joseph McCarthy and his House Unamerican Activities Committee; this was the time of the “Red Scare,” where McCarthy investigated everyone, because anyone could be a communist.