Treason
Treason is the crime of attacking a state authority to which one owes allegiance. This typically includes acts such as participating in a war against one's native country, attempting to overthrow its government, spying on its military, its diplomats, or its secret services for a hostile and foreign power, or attempting to kill its head of state. A person who commits treason is known in law as a traitor.Historically, in common law countries, treason also covered the murder of specific social superiors, such as the murder of a husband by his wife or that of a master by his servant. …
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Amnesty International · 23 April 2024 English
This report documents human rights concerns during 2023 in 155 countries, connecting issues at global and regional levels and looking forward to the implications for the future. States and armed …
questioning in connection to allegations of high treason and defamation. In Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad, Niger …
CEIP: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace · 18 April 2024 English
Despite embracing democracy, radical-right parties pose a significant challenge to the EU’s fundamental values. European leaders and institutions must address this challenge to safeguard democracy in the EU and ensure …
been to cause political disruption and undermine Bulgarians’ faith in the whole political class, which the party sees as treasonous … Revival frames Russia-critical and pro-Western stances in Bulgarian politics as treasonous and a consequence of the EU’s …
Access Now · 18 April 2024 Spanish
En consecuencia, la materia de la presente revisión puede formularse al tenor de la siguiente pregunta: ¿la regulación establecida en el Código Civil para la Ciudad de México respecto de …
elabora sobre la libertad de prensa en los siguientes términos: “[…] in other instances […] where blasphemous, immoral, treasonable …
Prospect Foundation · 16 April 2024 English
The list of potential crimes is long and wide-ranging: any person in Hong Kong who owns a smartphone that contains material condemning the CCP or the HKSAR government, or comes …
regime, or has heard that somebody else committed treason but does not report it to the police, or disseminates …
CEIP: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace · 15 April 2024 English
President Volodymyr Zelensky is continuing his large-scale purge of the Ukrainian leadership in an attempt to achieve greater cohesion and efficiency. The Ukrainian president is preparing for a double crisis …
the SBU back in 2022 for failing to pick up on treason among high-ranking security officials, while Trofimov …
FPRI: Foreign Policy Research Institute · 12 April 2024 English
In the early 1990s, Kyrgyzstan was often referred to as an “island of democracy” in Central Asia. The “island’s” shores have receded over the years, but
to that land, which Japarov said amounted to treason. On June 22, 2023, parliament met to consider … taken to a GKNB detention facility.24 He faces treason charges over the 2009 protocol he signed with …
Public Citizen · 5 April 2024 English
The indictment charges the President with a deliberate scheme to subvert the results of an election that he had lost and to remain in office in violation of the Constitution …
outer perimeters of presidential authority. Even treason would be protected, because Mr. Trump’s –––––––––––––––––––––––– … Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors …
JLAC: Jerusalem Legal Aid and Human Rights Center · 4 April 2024 English
Moreover, the scope of Universal Declaration of Human violations and crimes committed Rights, the Convention on the Rights against them has widened, and there of the Child of 1989, the …
the enemy during war, which is considered thus a treason. If a person is convicted of actual imprisonment …
ESI: European Stability Initiative · 3 April 2024 English
2 Council of Europe, Meeting between the Head of the Council of Europe Office in Baku and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Azerbaijan, 4 April 2023. …
with the purpose of extracting confessions of treason. The Assembly is appalled by the horrendous methods …
CEIP: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace · 3 April 2024 English
Volodymyr Zelensky’s five-year presidential term expires on May 20, 2024. When he was inaugurated, Zelensky promised to bring peace to Ukraine, to root out the corrupt elite, and to serve …
Oleksandr Dubinsky (currently under investigation on treason charges) has directly accused Zelensky of usurping …
