India shares sedition law With Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Iran
 

India's 156-year-old, colonial-era sedition law - used against arrested Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union President Kanhaiya Kumar - has been discarded by the UK (where punishment once included chopping ears), Scotland, South Korea and Indonesia. Among the countries that hold on to sedition as a criminal act: Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, Iran, Uzbekistan, Sudan, Senegal and Turkey, as one report pointed out. The US also has a sedition law, promulgated 218 years ago but with many parts struck down over two centuries.

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