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Sep 11, 2024 - Hong Kong has rejected “smears” by an international media freedom coalition after 23 partner countries expressed concern over Stand News verdict.

Mar 4, 2024 - Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai has formally pleaded not guilty to conspiring to collude with foreign forces and sedition.

Article 124A of the Indian Penal Code has been through engaging court speeches, Bills and Acts, Reports of commissions and committees, and insightful...

Looking back at historical trials of sedition, a pattern emerges.

Background Notes News:Free Speech and Sedition in a Democracy

Aug 30, 2024 - Chung Pui-kuen and Patrick Lam, two former chief editors of defunct Hong Kong media outlet Stand News, have been found guilty of sedition.

Nov 4, 2025 - A 19-year-old HK woman has pleaded guilty to sedition after appearing in videos promoting a “shadow legislature” that the city's government deems...

Nov 27, 2025 - The military and federal law enforcement have moved to investigate lawmakers who filmed a video earlier this month urging troops to ‘refuse illegal orders’

Oct 23, 2024 - Former acting chief editor of independent Hong Kong media outlet Stand News, Patrick Lam, is seeking to overturn his conviction for seditious.

Oct 23, 2024 - Chung Pui-kuen, the former chief editor of Hong Kong media outlet Stand News has been jailed for one year and nine months for sedition.

Dec 30, 2021 - A Hong Kong court has ordered two veteran journalists who had links with the now-defunct non-profit news outlet Stand News to remain in custody after they were...

Nov 1, 2022 - The trial against the defunct online news outlet Stand News and its former editor-in-chief Chung Pui-kuen and former acting chief editor Patrick Lam began at...

May 1, 2025 - Three of the four acts expired shortly after they were signed into law in the late 1700s. One remains active—and it’s been at the center of constitutional...

Feb 20, 2025 - CIDG chief Nicolas Torre is the latest to file a sedition complaint under the Marcos administration

Nov 26, 2025 - Federal law has very specific language on how a suspect could be charged under sedition.

Hasina has been living in India since she fled Bangladesh on August 5, 2024, following a massive nationwide student-led protest

Nov 22, 2025 - Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO) shared an audio recording of several graphic, violent threats he has received from members of the public.

Dec 2, 2025 - HK will not tolerate those who “exploit” the deadly Tai Po fire and “sabotage” society’s effort to support the victims, chief executive John Lee has...

Sep 6, 2023 - In dismissing the case, the court granted the demurrers to evidence filed by the respondents, which has the same effect as acquittal

Sep 27, 2024 - The Hong Kong government has hailed the sentencing of two former top editors of Stand News in a landmark sedition case.

Oct 17, 2024 - In charging a webmaster with inciting to sedition, the justice department cites a case from 1951. Opposition Senator Antonio Trillanes IV has also been charged...

Jan 5, 2026 - The charges were pursued by the PNP Criminal Investigation and Detection Group. Only the inciting to sedition charge progressed, as rebellion charges were...

Nov 25, 2025 - Explores why Mark Kelly's actions may indicate a presidential run in 2028 amidst controversy.

Nov 20, 2025 - In the long ago of my teenage youth (no, not yesterday), I had a book report assignment due in my...