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Unsurprisingly, these regimes viewed the slightest criticism as treason and subversion.
One hesitates to call the Party of Putin suicidal, masochistic, or driven by self-hatred or a taste for treason.
You would think Tajbakhsh’s record in Iran would rule out an accusation of treason.
In 1915, another law was enacted that would revoke the citizenship of Franco-German and Franco-Austrian nationals engaged in acts of treason or rebellion against France; it was applied in about 500 cases, but fell into disuse after the war.
With Fatah demonizing Israel, rejecting compromise, demanding total victory, glorifying terrorist violence, and portraying moderation as treason, Hamas merely needed to prove that it was better at pursuing this course.
As for Zola, who defended Captain Alfred Dreyfus from charges of treason fueled by anti-Semitism, he was easily convicted for libel because he merely questioned the motives of witnesses without offering any new evidence.
Back then, the custodians of neutrality would have shouted down any hint of collaboration with NATO and the West as an act of treason.
The End of Treason (or the Beginning?)
The US has not seen a treason prosecution since World War II, and Germany has, arguably, abolished treason in the traditional sense, retaining only a general crime of sedition designed to protect the government from overthrow by anti-democratic forces.
Now focus on the postcommunist states, where a new wave of treason trials seems about in the offing.
The prosecution in the Czech Republic of two 78 year old men (Milos Jakes, and Jozef Lenart), both veterans of the Soviet invasion of 1968, and the four-year-long trial in Vladivostok of Grigory Pasko, a Russian naval officer, suggest the earliest stages of a cycle where injured states respond to perceptions of betrayal with charges of treason.
Why does treason appear to be dying in some countries and coming alive in others?
As originally defined by Parliament in 14 th century England, the Anglo-American version of treason includes a whole range of acts that threatened the Crown.
Levying war against the King was a primary charge of treason, but a catch limits the crime's scope.
So, one requirement of treason, virtually everywhere, is that only citizens and permanent residents of a country can commit treason.
But as a matter of definition, if you have no duty of loyalty to a foreign country, then you cannot commit treason against it.
The Americans who signed the Declaration of Independence, as British citizens, were all guilty of treason for levying war against King George III.
Understandably, when they won independence and escaped prosecution, they trimmed the 14 th century definition of treason.
Secure states tend to forget about treason.
When a group of dissident Jews conspired in 1970 to highjack an airplane, they were charged with attempted treason.
When Anatoly Shcharansky allegedly gave sensitive material to an American journalist, he was convicted of treason.
But they retained the clause subjecting any Russian to charges of treason for creating risks to the international security of the state.
Germany's experience with treason is rife with paradox but may point toward the future.
Anyone - foreigners as well as Germans - can commit Hochverrat [high treason] by using force or the threat of force to undermine the Basic Law, the German constitution.
Still, by substituting the Basic Law for the Fuehrer in the postwar amendment of the crime, contemporary Germans have in effect nullified the crime of treason.
Even though the label of treason is used, the offense now resembles the American concept of sedition and seeks to prevent a violent overthrow of the government.
Many now feel that it is easier to support Putin’s “strong country” message than to go against the grain and risk accusations of treason and problems at work.
The treason charges leveled against Jang – China’s most valued friend in North Korea’s regime – included underselling resources like coal, land, and precious metals to China.
Soon after he founded the extreme nationalist Greater Romania Party (PRM), as well as a so-called "national treason list," on which almost every notable political and cultural figure had his or her place.
They accuse Thaksin, Thailand’s wealthiest businessman, of corruption and treason for the tax-free sale of his family-owned Shin Corporation to the Singapore government’s Temasek Holdings for $1.9 billion.
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