Treason
in sentence
140 examples of Treason in a sentence
US Intelligence, Inc.SINGAPORE – Among the stories and rumors prompted by Edward J. Snowden’s leaking of classified material – whistleblowing or treason, depending on where you stand – the revelations that may actually lead to a policy change concern the extent to which private companies now carry out intelligence gathering and analysis in the United States.
A single article stipulates that, "Accusation of the President of committing grand
treason
or any other criminal act may be made upon a motion submitted by at least one-third of members of the People's Assembly and approved by two-thirds."
In the new order established under this Second Turkish Republic, any challenge to his authority is liable to be viewed as
treason.
Security forces attacked peaceful protesters, jailed opposition leaders, sent thousands of their supporters to gruesome detention camps, and accused independent journalists of
treason
– a crime punishable by death.
Yet whereas Murat stuck by Napoleon (and was ultimately executed for treason), Bernadotte, in his position as King Charles XIV John of Sweden, eventually helped to bring about Napoleon’s defeat.
Others are calling for criminal investigations, characterizing the work he led on a Plan B (whereby Greece would introduce a new payments system either in parallel or instead of the euro) as tantamount to
treason.
The crimes they attribute to Putin sound like the indictment for a
treason
trial.
Captain Alfred Dreyfus, the Jewish officer falsely accused of
treason
in 1894, was such a polarizing figure in France because his opponents saw him as symbol of national decadence, of a nation whose sacred identity was being diluted by alien blood.
Similarly, opposition leaders in Zimbabwe have been prosecuted for treason; sodomy charges were leveled against the Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim; and former Belarusian presidential candidate Andrei Sannikov was imprisoned for allegedly organizing mass protests.
The concept of high
treason
is bandied about almost daily.
Dictators everywhere silence journalists in the name of “national security” by charging those who would investigate their regimes with treason, subversion, or espionage.
The story of General Stanculescu, sentenced to 15 years in prison, reads like a cheap novel, with
treason
thrown into the mix.
Kem Sokha, who co-headed the main opposition group, the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), was arrested in September on dubious
treason
charges.
Putin's war in Chechnya enables him to keep public opinion mobilized and to accuse the opposition of lacking patriotism, even of
treason.
After Biti was finally produced before the court days later, the government announced that he will be charged with
treason
– which carries the death penalty – for unofficially announcing the results of the March 29, 2008, elections.
The belief that openness is
treason
and closure is patriotic is a rejection of the entire post-1945 framework of politics and policy in the developed world.
He thus accused almost half of the democratically elected members of the House, from both parties, of
treason
for holding the views that they do – thereby essentially negating democracy.
Is it really
treason
against the planet to express some skepticism about whether this is the right way forward?
Is it
treason
to question throwing huge sums of money at a policy that will do virtually no good in a hundred years?
Wanting to shut down the discussion is simply
treason
against reason.
As in wartime, every criticism shades into
treason.
They appeal, above all, to the logic of popular suspicion that perhaps becomes inevitable when a proud nation is suddenly laid low: Pigna, like Lanata, presents a history full of conspiracy, lies, treason, and corruption.
Reasoned opposition to government policies must be recognized again as a hallmark of democracy, not an act of
treason.
At the same time, freedom of expression and association are severely limited; criticizing government policies is deemed tantamount to high
treason.
The legislation is meant to comply with Article 23 of the Basic Law, the mini-constitution that governs Hong Kong and that requires the government to enact laws against treason, sedition, subversion, and theft of national secrets.
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.
Once again, he accused opposition parties of
treason.
Just days earlier, he asked the Supreme Court to appoint a three-judge special tribunal to investigate charges of
treason
against Pakistan’s former president, General Pervez Musharraf, for imposing emergency military rule and suspending the constitution in November 2007.
Musharraf will be tried under Article Six of Pakistan’s constitution, according to which “any person who abrogates or subverts or suspends or holds in abeyance…the Constitution by use of force or show of force or by any other unconstitutional means shall be guilty of high treason.”
Parliament has defined high
treason
as a capital offense.
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