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Pro-democracy digital media website "Stand News" shuts down in Hong Kong as police raids its offices and arrest senior executives. The senior executives are later charged with sedition in the latest crackdown related to the national security law. The Hong Kong government says that the news site's assets have been frozen and that more arrests could occur.
2021-12-29

The U.S. House of Representatives impeaches President Donald Trump for "incitement of insurrection".
2021-01-13

U.S. Attorney General William Barr tells prosecutors to aggressively charge people arrested at recent demonstrations across the country, even suggesting including a sedition charge, which is usually reserved for those who have plotted a threat that posed imminent danger to the government.
2020-09-17

Prominent democracy campaigner and DJ Tam Tak-chi is charged with sedition under the colonial-era sedition law and is the first person charged with that crime since the 1997 handover of sovereignty from the United Kingdom to China.
2020-09-8

The trial against the Mossos d'Esquadra leadership begins in the National Audience for the role of the regional police in the 2017 Catalan independence referendum and the 2017–18 constitutional crisis. Then-Major of the Mossos Josep Lluís Trapero, Pere Soler and Cèsar Puig face 11 years of imprisonment for rebellion, while Teresa Laplana is accused of sedition, facing four years of imprisonment.
2020-01-20

The Spanish attorney general, José Manuel Maza, requests a lawsuit against (former) Catalan government members, seeking charges of sedition, rebellion and embezzlement. The Catalan parliament is formally dissolved.
2017-10-30

Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop says the government is very concerned about Saturday's arrest and detention of two Australian Broadcasting Corporation journalists who attempted to interview Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak. The pair, who are in Malaysia to investigate allegations of corruption and bribery involving the prime minister, were detained by Malaysian police for six hours, and told not to leave the country.
2016-03-14

Malaysian police arrest parliamentarian Nurul Izzah Anwar for alleged sedition. Izzah is the daughter of former Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim.
2015-03-16

Chairman Justice Markandey Katju of the Press Council of India, defends Aseem Trivedi: "he did nothing illegal". Since September 9th, the Indian cartoonist Aseem Trivedi is detained in Mumbai on charges of sedition related to the content of his work.
2012-09-10

Police blockade the Parliament of Papua New Guinea in Port Moresby the day after the government led by Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea Peter O'Neill lays sedition charges against the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Papua New Guinea, Sir Salamo Injia.
2012-05-25