Treason
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When the French army captain Alfred Dreyfus was falsely accused of
treason
in a rigged trial in 1894, French society was divided between mostly conservative anti-Dreyfusards and liberal defenders of the Jewish officer.
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Van Meegeren was charged with the crime of treason, which is itself punishable by death.
But he didn't confess to
treason.
And then the charges of
treason
were dropped.
Alexander the Great went on to conquer the known world; Hyperides found himself on trial for
treason.
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