Sedition is overt conduct, such as speech and organisation, that tends toward rebellion against the established order. Sedition often includes subversion of a constitution and incitement of discontent toward, or rebellion against, established authority. A seditionist is one who engages in or promotes the interest of sedition. Because sedition is overt, it is typically not considered a subversive act, and the overt acts that may be prosecutable under sedition laws vary from one legal code to another.
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Sedition is overt conduct, such as speech and organisation, that tends toward rebellion against the established order. Sedition often includes subversion of a constitution and incitement of discontent toward, or rebellion against, established authority. A seditionist is one who engages in or promotes the interest of sedition. Because sedition is overt, it is typically not considered a subversive act, and the overt acts that may be prosecutable under sedition laws vary from one legal code to another. The term sedition in its modern meaning first appeared in the Elizabethan Era as the \”notion of inciting by words or writings disaffection towards the state or constituted authority\”. In Canada, sedition, which includes speaking seditious words, publishing a seditious libel, and being party to a sedition conspiracy, is an indictable offense, for which the maximum punishment is of fourteen years’ imprisonment. The National Security Bill was tabled in early 2003 to replace the existing laws regarding sedition and subversive acts and to introduce new laws to prohibit such acts. In Hong Kong, Article 23 of the Basic Law requires the special administrative region to enact laws prohibiting any act of treason, subversion, or subversion against the Central People’s Government of the People’s Republic of China. The law also prohibits the establishment of political organisations that establish ties to overseas political organisations, or to establish ties with overseas political groups that are hostile to the Chinese government.
In Australia, the ‘sedition’ clauses were repealed and replaced with ‘urging violence’. Service offences up to two years imprisonment are served in a Military prison, followed by transfer to a penitentiary for the remainder of the sentence. During World War II former Mayor of Montreal Camillien Houde campaigned against conscription in Canada. On 2 August 1940, he was placed under arrest by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police on charges of seditions. He was found guilty, and was confined in internment camps in Petawawa, Ontario, and Gagetown, New Brunswick, until 1944. Upon his release on 18 August 1944, he won back his position as the Mayor of Toronto in the election in 1944. According to the Crime Ordinance, a seditions intention is an intention to bring into hatred or contempt or to excite disaffect against the administration of Hong Kong. The law established by law established in Hong Kong is to raise discontent amongst inhabitants of Hong Hong, to promote feelings of ill-will and enmity between different classes of the population of the Hong Kong to incite persons to violence, to counsel to violence or to counsel counsel to disobedience to lawful order. The laws were amended in Australia on 19 September 2011. A Sedition Ordinance had existed in the territory since 1970, which was subsequently consolidated into the CrimeOrdinance in 1972. The “Sedition” clause was repealed and replace with “urging Violence” in Australia’s Anti-Terrorism Act 2005.
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