seditious

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The colonial-era offence of seditious publication comes with a maximum penalty of two years.

From Barron's • Feb. 8, 2026

Rhodes was sentenced to 18 years in prison for seditious conspiracy and other crimes committed during the U.S.

From Salon • Dec. 30, 2025

Whether Apple Daily played a seditious role, and how much control Lai exerted over its stance was at the centre of his 156-day national security trial.

From BBC • Dec. 20, 2025

Lai was also convicted of the publication of dozens of what the prosecution described as seditious articles that attacked government authorities.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 15, 2025

Only ten years after the passage and ratification of the Constitution, however, what were treasonable or seditious acts remained blurry and more problematic judgments without the historical sanction that only experience could provide.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis