The four, all aged 16 or 17, were fined in what was the first Swedish treason case in living memory, Sweden's TT news agency said. In a protest against the monarchy, the youngsters had assembled a ...

In Tanzania Tundu Lissu, the opposition leader, was arrested on April 9th. The charge sheet cites comments he made ...

For example, courts held that armed resistance to the collection of taxes constituted constructive treason. A number of cases arising out of the Civil War also suggested, without directly ...

Tanzanian opposition leader Tundu Lissu has survived an assassination attempt that left him riddled with bullets, multiple ...

For example, the fact that she voluntarily handed ... that she will receive a sentence below the lower limit for high treason cases — 12 years. Earlier, Russia’s Federal Security Service ...

The Congress shall have Power to declare the Punishment of Treason, but no Attainder of Treason shall work Corruption of Blood, or Forfeiture except during the Life of the Person attainted.

(There is a reference in the judgment to the claim that all treason laws have retrospective effect.) He concludes that the prosecution has failed to make out a case of high treason against the ...