Sedition

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Alerts | Malaysia

Malaysian cartoonist faces sedition charges

Zunar with copies of previously banned cartoon collections. (AP/Lai Seng Sin)

Bangkok, September 27, 2010--The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the arrest of Malaysian cartoonist Zulkifli Awar Ulhaque, also known as Zunar, a contributor to the popular news site Malaysiakini and author of a new collection of political cartoons.

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Blog | Uganda

Ugandan media celebrates, fights on after sedition ruling

By Mohamed Keita/CPJ Africa Advocacy Coordinator

Journalists at the Monitor cheer the court's ruling to strike down sedition. (Monitor)

With surprise and relief, Ugandan journalists, who routinely face the police's "media crimes" unit, welcomed a partial victory for press freedom on Wednesday. The country's constitutional court had ruled that criminal sedition was unconstitutional. Even so, there was a consensus that more legal press battles lie ahead.

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Alerts | Uganda

Uganda strikes down criminal sedition

New York, August 26, 2010--The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes Wednesday's ruling by Uganda's Constitutional Court declaring the country's criminal sedition offense, which has been used to prosecute journalists, unconstitutional.

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Alerts | Uganda

Ugandan online editor accused of sedition

Nairobi, August 4, 2010—Police accused the online editor of The Ugandan Record, Timothy Kalyegira, of sedition Tuesday and searched his house today, Kalyegira told the Committee to Protect Journalists. The Media Offences Department commissioner of police, Simon Kuteesa, interrogated Kalyegira about two online articles that speculated as to whether the Ugandan government were involved in the July 11 bomb attacks in Kampala.

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