THE Lusaka High Court has refused to grant governance activist Brebnar Changala an order restraining state agents from effecting further arrests or prosecutions against him based on the charge of seditious practices. High Court Judge Elita Mwikisa has stated that she has no jurisdiction to arrest criminal proceedings in the Subordinate Court. In this matter, Changala sued the state in the High Court, seeking an order to restrain its agents from effecting any further arrests or prosecutions against him based on the charge of seditious practices. He argued that the law of sedition is an unconstitutional and archaic crime which the current government is frequently using to target political speech. Changala stated that sedition criminalises the right to free expression,...