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The Visitor (newspaper) (971 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

condemnation, eventually resulting in the judiciary summoning Caunt for seditious libel. Widespread press coverage was given, even a report in the Sydney Morning

William Holland (publisher) (612 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

publisher who was fined £100 and imprisoned in 1793 for a year for seditious libel. Holland's antecedents are obscure, though David Alexander suggests

Trial of Reuben Crandall (2,659 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

was arrested in Washington, D.C., on August 10, 1835, on charges of "seditious libel and inciting slaves and free blacks to revolt", the libels being abolitionist

Saumur v Quebec (City of) (431 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

according to which mere criticism of the government does not constitute seditious libel. Subsequent to Saumur was the case of Roncarelli v Duplessis [1959]

Walter Harley Trueman (459 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

John Queen, two leading figures in the strike who were accused of seditious libel and conspiracy. In his jury address, he is reported to have said "you

History of Jamaican newspapers (549 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

seized Mais's manuscript, arrested Mais himself, and convicted him of seditious libel, jailing him for six months. In the 1960s, Jamaican prime minister

Philadelphia Aurora (1,225 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

General Advertiser. Bache had died while awaiting trial on charges of seditious libel against President John Adams and his Federalist administration as result

Manchester Gazette (1,149 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Gazette ceased publication, worn down by repeated prosecutions for seditious libel (and the loss of a number of straightforward libel cases). The Observer

Penal Code of Bangladesh (576 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Sedition and seditious libel has been criticized as an outdated law. While the United Kingdom has phased out penalties for seditious libel, its continued

Salathiel Lovell (1,150 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Lovell later presided over a trial in which Defoe was found guilty of seditious libel. He sentenced Defoe to pay an impossibly punitive fine, be publicly

Right to petition in the United States (2,617 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Arch Bishop of Canterbury were committed to the Tower and tried for Seditious Libel for refusing to obey orders to read a Declaration of Indulgence. They

Hugh Hornby Birley (437 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

University Press, ISBN 978-0-8018-1969-8 Lobban, M. (1990), "From seditious libel to unlawful assembly: Peterloo and the changing face of political crime

1764 in Great Britain (663 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

19 January – John Wilkes is expelled from the House of Commons for seditious libel for his article criticising King George III in The North Briton. 5

1855 Victorian High Treason trials (2,065 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Ballarat Times editor Henry Seekamp resulted in a finding of guilt for seditious libel, and a month later, he was sentenced to a term of imprisonment of six

List of Supreme Court of Canada cases (Richards Court through Fauteux Court) (80 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

v Alley [1951] SCR 64 December 18, 1950 R v Boucher [1951] SCR 265 Seditious libel Johannesson v West St Paul (Rural Municipality of) [1952] 1 SCR 292

1735 in literature (746 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

manslaughter. August 4 – A jury finds John Peter Zenger not guilty of seditious libel in The New York Weekly Journal. September 3 – Samuel Johnson marries

Hambledon Club (1,282 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

France, having left England in 1792 shortly before being convicted of seditious libel in absentia. The last meeting was held on 21 September 1796 where the

1703 in England (678 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(at Temple Bar, London) as part of his punishment for the crime of seditious libel after publishing his politically satirical pamphlet The Shortest Way

Harry Croswell (4,496 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Democratic-Republican attorney General Ambrose Spencer indicted Croswell for a seditious libel as: ... being a malicious and seditious man, and of depraved mind and

1703 in literature (884 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Defoe is pilloried at Temple Bar, London, as part of a sentence for seditious libel, after publishing his satirical pamphlet The Shortest Way with the

1764 in literature (1,186 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

19 – John Wilkes is expelled from the British House of Commons for seditious libel in an article criticizing King George III in The North Briton. February

John Reeves (activist) (1,707 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article

30 et seq. (1817). A. V. Beedell, 'John Reeves's Prosecution for a Seditious Libel, 1795-6: A Study in Political Cynicism', The Historical Journal, Vol

1735 (1,597 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Journal becomes a symbol of freedom of the press when he acquitted of seditious libel against William Cosby, the British Governor of the Province of New

Thomas Maule (Quaker) (1,231 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article

1696 Acquittal of Thomas Maule of Salem, Massachusetts, on Charges of Seditious Libel and Its Impact on The Development of First Amendment Freedoms. Villanova

Newgate Prison (4,942 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

born and imprisoned in Newgate Prison) – held at Newgate in 1703 for seditious libel Claude Du Vall, highwayman – held in Newgate from December 1669 until

Winnipeg general strike (4,354 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

J.S. Woodsworth and Fred J. Dixon, were arrested and charged with seditious libel. They had published articles with headings such as "Kaiserism in Canada"

Alien and Sedition Acts (4,289 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

by jailers exercising "usurped powers". Haswell was found guilty of seditious libel by judge William Paterson, and sentenced to a two-month imprisonment

J. S. Woodsworth (3,080 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

with seditious libel. Woodsworth took over the duties and after just a week he too was arrested and charged with the same thing. Oddly, his seditious libel

Telecommunications in Sierra Leone (1,531 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

ensure freedom of speech and press. The law criminalizes defamatory and seditious libel, but is rarely applied. Its threatened application may stifle expression

Mass media in Sierra Leone (3,363 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

pay sizeable registration fees and the Criminal Libel Law including Seditious Libel Law of 1965 is sometime threatened to be used against media houses

George Leyburn (667 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Vindication of their Innocency from the false calumnies laid upon them in a seditious libel publisht by Dr. Leyburn’ [1661]. ‘Vindiciæ censuræ Duacenæ; seu confutatio

Rosalind and Helen (1,398 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

unorthodox. Lionel is subsequently arrested on charges of blasphemy and seditious libel for his alleged attacks against religion and the government. He is

The New York Weekly Journal (695 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

grand jury accusing the New York Weekly Journal of breaking the law of seditious libel in New York, but the grand jury returned with no indictments. Zenger's

Harry Yansaneh (610 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

editor of the newspaper, Paul Kamara, was sentenced to prison for seditious libel in October 2004. For Di People and five other newspapers (The African

John Elphinstone, 2nd Lord Balmerino (1,162 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

that he, knowing the author of what was held to be a dangerous and seditious libel, failed to discover him. Public opinion was on his side, but he was

Freedom of the press in the United States (3,045 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

doi:10.2307/845791. JSTOR 845791. Nelson, Harold L. (April 1959). "Seditious Libel in Colonial America". The American Journal of Legal History. 3 (2)

News media (3,182 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

affairs than previously seen. In 1735, John Peter Zenger was accused of seditious libel by the governor of New York, William Cosby. Zenger was found not guilty

Ned Ward (1,448 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

into custody both in February and June 1706, Ward was charged with seditious libel for accusing the Queen Anne of failing to support the Tories in Parliament

Benjamin Edes (1,225 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

In June, 1769, Bernard demanded that Edes and Gill be arrested for seditious libel, no such action was ever taken. Within three months, upon demand of

Hansard (4,260 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

British Government. On 5 June 1810 William Cobbett stood trial for seditious libel for an article he wrote against the British Government which was published

City Honors School (1,399 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Dimensions, and Triumph, along with the unofficial publications The Potters Field, Schism, Seditious Libel and The Liberator.) Website City Honors School

Saint Paul's Church National Historic Site (841 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of the story of the printer John Peter Zenger, whose acquittal in a seditious libel case in 1735 is seen as a foundation of the free press in America.

Daniel Defoe (7,155 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

was quickly discovered and Defoe was arrested. He was charged with seditious libel and found guilty in a trial at the Old Bailey in front of the notoriously

James De Lancey (1,387 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

his life. When two grand juries failed to return an indictment for seditious libel against journalist John Peter Zenger, the Attorney General filed an

Henry Haslett (United Irishmen) (897 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

with the French Republic, as a proprietor Haslett was convicted of seditious libel. The paper's presses were destroyed and publication suppressed in May

Emmett Matthew Hall (2,191 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

and anti-Catholic fervour. The plaintiff accused the defendant of seditious libel for comments made in a publication he printed and which, Hall argued

Thomas Spence (1,440 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

treason, and in 1801 he was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment for seditious libel. He died in London on 8 September 1814. The threatened enclosure of

William Benbow (1,482 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

scheduled to begin on 12 August, but on 4 August Benbow was arrested for seditious libel along with George Julian Harney, for campaigning to persuade workers

Edward Bouverie (senior) (1,072 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

1763 he supported the radical MP John Wilkes when he was charged with seditious libel for an article attacking George III, but voted with Administration

Hokitika (2,836 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Cemetery. Larkin was later arrested, charged, and convicted of riot and seditious libel. In 1873 Hokitika became the capital of the short-lived Westland Province

Ioan Lupaș (883 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Luceafărul magazine. In November 1907, Lupaș was brought to trial for seditious libel, being accused of having instigated the peasants to hatred against

Cab-rank rule (1,130 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

took on the case of Thomas Paine, who was being tried in absentia for seditious libel for the publication of the second part of his Rights of Man. Erskine's

Timeline of the Eureka Rebellion (5,045 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of the Ballarat Times, Henry Seekamp, is arrested and indicted for seditious libel and held with the rebel detainees. 5 December 1854: Major General Nickle

Percy Bysshe Shelley (10,321 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Hunt, however, decided not to publish it for fear of prosecution for seditious libel. The poem was only officially published in 1832. The Shelleys moved

Godden v Hales (776 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

declaration be published. James refused charged all the bishops with seditious libel. The bishops were tried in the Court of King's Bench at the end of

Stuart Restoration (4,774 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of the King's religious policies, they were arrested and tried for seditious libel. On 30 June 1688, a group of seven Protestant nobles invited the Prince

William Orr (United Irishman) (2,089 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

and Camden for their conduct in the matter, was later convicted of seditious libel, despite an eloquent defence by Curran. Orr is regarded as the first

William Duane (journalist) (5,008 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

justify the French position in the XYZ Affair, Bache faced charges of seditious libel against President John Adams and his Federalist administration. When

Felix Vaughan (1,664 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

circulated a handbill about the war and its effect on the poor, on a seditious libel charge in Leicester. He was present with John Frost when John Horne

Hudson, New York (4,139 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Democratic-Republican attorney General Ambrose Spencer indicted Croswell for seditious libel. The case eventually wound up with Alexander Hamilton defending Crosswell

Barry Yelverton, 1st Viscount Avonmore (1,468 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

impartiality. Peter Finnerty, a journalist, was later convicted of seditious libel for publishing an attack on Yelverton over his conduct of Orr's trial:

Theophilus Hastings, 7th Earl of Huntingdon (2,275 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Derbyshire. Combined with the trial of the Seven Anglican bishops for seditious libel in June 1688, James' policies now seemed to go beyond tolerance for

Samuel Cook (Chartist) (1,762 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Cook was then summoned to the Town Hall on accused of publishing a seditious libel, resulting in him being tried at the Worcester Assizes on 1 August

Nonjuring schism (4,540 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

deposition could prevent one. His prosecution of the Seven Bishops for seditious libel in June 1688 alienated the Tories who formed his main English support

Andrew Hamilton (lawyer) (3,308 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

was so disposed. The attorney-general charged him with the crime of seditious libel, and Zenger's lawyers James Alexander and William Smith, objecting

False statements of fact (2,090 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

deliberate lies, against the government may be protected. While some "seditious libel" may be able to be punished, political statements are likely protected

William Jones (philologist) (4,464 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

between a scholar and a peasant (1783), was the subject of a trial for seditious libel (known as the Case of the Dean of St Asaph) after it was reprinted

History of Manitoba (5,033 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

convicted on charges of seditious conspiracy, illegal combinations, and seditious libel; four were aliens who were deported under the Canadian Immigration

John Somers, 1st Baron Somers (3,926 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

The bishops' petition had been described as a false, malicious and seditious libel. In his peroration Somers answered this charge: My Lord, as to all

George Grenville (3,704 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

George III's speech made on 23 April 1763. Wilkes was prosecuted for "seditious libel". That was a massive tactical blunder by the secretaries of state,

Jacob Mchangama (2,049 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

January 2020. Jacob Mchangama (December 23, 2018). "The Return of Seditious Libel in the Age of Trump". Arc. Medium. Retrieved 22 January 2020. "Jacob

Arthur O'Connor (United Irishman) (2,995 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

with the French Republic. Arrests, including his own in February for seditious libel, frustrated his attempts to canvass. The government, he explained to

Manitoba (10,166 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

convicted on charges of seditious conspiracy, illegal combinations, and seditious libel; four were deported under the Canadian Immigration Act. The Great Depression

Thomas Cooper (American politician, born 1759) (2,767 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article

Charles (2011). The Free Press Crisis of 1800: Thomas Cooper's Trial for Seditious Libel. University Press of Kansas. ISBN 9780700617654.; history of the landmark

William Robert Hay (2,549 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Biography. Vol. 38. London: Smith, Elder & Co. Michael Lobban, From Seditious Libel to Unlawful Assembly: Peterloo and the Changing Face of Political Crime

Michael Bawtree (2,226 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

including in a version of Howe's famous defence against a charge of seditious libel in 1835, and in a CBC-TV documentary on Howe. He also wrote a young

Church of Ireland (8,420 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

established church. His prosecution of the Seven Bishops in England for seditious libel in June 1688 destroyed his support base, while many felt James lost

Manchester Martyrs (4,887 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

two of the seven, a newspaper editor and a priest, pleaded guilty to seditious libel, having published "a succession of very rabid articles about the Queen's

History of the Connecticut Constitution (4,104 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

was a former Federalist crusading journalist who had been sued for seditious libel by the Jefferson-party in New York in the famous People v. Croswell

John Udall (Puritan) (3,004 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Puckering, on a charge of having published ‘a wicked, scandalous, and seditious libel’ entitled A Demonstration. The indictment was laid under the statute

Edward Hutchinson (mercer) (4,355 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

her church trial, Edward was "convented for having his hand to the seditious libel, justifying the same, & using contemptuous speeches, the Court did

John Drummond, 1st Earl of Melfort (2,680 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

her husband William of Orange. By prosecuting the Seven Bishops for seditious libel, James appeared to be going beyond tolerance for Catholicism and into

Harry Pollitt (6,310 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

members of the Communist Party convicted at the Old Bailey on charges of seditious libel and incitement to mutiny. Pollitt was given a 12-month sentence as

History of Ontario (7,703 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

editor of its newspaper, Canadian Forward, was charged three times with seditious libel and once with possession of seditious material; he was imprisoned twice

William Garrow (4,639 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

any man I am acquainted with". In 1812 he prosecuted Leigh Hunt for seditious libel against the Prince Regent; thanks to his work, Hunt was found guilty

John Philpot Curran (4,688 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

disquiet over Curran's representation of Peter Finnerty, charged for seditious libel in publishing an attack on the judges in the trial of William Orr and

London Corresponding Society (6,173 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

property"). He was given two years hard labour on bread and water for seditious libel. In advance of the treason trials, habeas Corpus had been suspended

Thomas Russell (rebel) (4,730 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

faithful report of the trial of Hurdy-Gurdy, tried and convicted of a seditious libel in the court of King's Bench . . .,, (originally serialised in the

Early American publishers and printers (18,320 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

David (April 2001). "The Sedition Act of 1798 and the Incorporation of Seditious Libel into First Amendment Jurisprudence". The American Journal of Legal

Sierra Leone (25,013 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

pay sizeable registration fees. The Criminal Libel Law, including Seditious Libel Law of 1965, is used to control what is published in the media. In

Slavery in the District of Columbia (5,755 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

literature, and Key wrote a lengthy indictment, charging him with "seditious libel and inciting slaves and free blacks to revolt". Key thought he would

Wolfe Tone (9,566 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of Archibald Hamilton Rowan (a fellow United man serving time for seditious libel) with William Jackson.: 211 An Anglican clergyman radicalised by his

History of journalism (7,189 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

seized Mais's manuscript, arrested Mais himself, and convicted him of seditious libel, jailing him for six months. History of Polish journalism dates to

Atheist Ireland (4,179 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

question on the section of the Constitution relating to blasphemous and seditious libel. In the event, no referendums were held before the dissolution of the

Marcus Garvey (20,333 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

published in the Blackman journal. This resulted in his being charged with seditious libel, for which he was convicted and sentenced to six months in prison.

List of years in literature (15,876 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

1735 in literature – At the end of the trial of John Peter Zenger for seditious libel in the New York Weekly Journal, he is found not guilty by the jury

Bibliography of early American publishers and printers (6,865 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Society: 490–530. JSTOR 40541605. N Nelson, Harold L. (April 1959). "Seditious Libel in Colonial America". The American Journal of Legal History. 3 (2)

Edward Coke (14,201 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

which ruled that truth was not a defence against an accusation of seditious libel, and also held that ordinary common law courts could enforce this,

History of Canadian newspapers (5,687 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

serious and oft-carried out threat of being charged with criminal or seditious libel. As the early printing press was an essential tool of colonial administration

1730s (15,076 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Journal becomes a symbol of freedom of the press when he acquitted of seditious libel against William Cosby, the British Governor of the Province of New

Eureka Rebellion (17,148 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Seekamp of the Ballarat Times. Seekamp was tried and convicted of seditious libel by a Melbourne jury on 23 January 1855 and, after a series of appeals

Canadian Labour Revolt (5,216 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

McLachlan was removed from office by the UMWA and also convicted of seditious libel. The Communist Party of Canada, which McLachlan had joined at the end

People v. Croswell (1,922 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Valley. Fleming, Thomas (July 1967). "A Scandalous, Malicious and Seditious Libel". American Heritage. "James Callender". monticello.org (Official website

Freedom of speech by country (22,665 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the death of the monarch, sedition (no longer illegal, sedition and seditious libel (as common law offences) were abolished by section 73 of the Coroners

Human rights in the United Kingdom (24,828 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Offences Act 1967, Lord Reid and Lord Diplock dissenting. Old offences of seditious libel and blasphemous libel were removed by the Criminal Justice and Coroners

Impeachment of Samuel Chase (8,068 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

James T. Callender was charged under the Alien and Sedition Act with seditious libel against President John Adams by ruling against the request of a jury

United Kingdom constitutional law (41,155 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Central Independent Television plc [1994] Fam 192 Old offences of seditious libel and blasphemous libel were removed by the Criminal Justice and Coroners

Richard Daly (11,463 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

sexual predator, appeared while Ridgway and Symonds were imprisoned for seditious libel. Ridgway's Memoirs of Mrs Billington was followed by publication of

Internet censorship and surveillance in Africa (11,487 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

generally respects these rights. The law criminalizes defamatory and seditious libel, but is rarely applied. Its threatened application may stifle expression