Under the law, the maximum jail term for distributing a seditious publication is three years' jail for a first offender.

It'll take a while to do a complete search, of course, but the governor did specifically request three months ago that the prime minister put a stop to all seditious publications.

Since that time, the number of seditious publications has risen.

The charges related to a "seditious publication" handed by Banda to the editor of the Nyasaland Times.

It is also a crime to possess a seditious publication without a "lawful excuse".

Offenses included attacks on state policy or military forces, donning army or police uniforms, publication of "seditious publications", and membership in the Republican Army.

Wroe was arrested and charged with producing a seditious publication.

His careful monitoring and control of nonconformist ideas and opinions succeeded not only in checking seditious publications, but also in limiting political controversy and reducing debate.

Freedom of speech could be threatened by a law that would ban "seditious" publications and make it a crime to endanger the "stability" of Hong Kong or China.

Thousands of copies of these sermons were circulated in a seditious publication, The Devil's Pulpit.