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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