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  • 1Treason — In law, treason is the crime that covers some of the more serious acts of disloyalty to one s sovereign or nation. Historically, treason also covered the murder of specific social superiors, such as the murder of a husband by his wife (treason… …

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  • 2Treason Act 1695 — The Treason Act 1695 is an Act of the Parliament of England (citation 7 8 Will. III c. 3, long title An Act for regulateing of Tryals in Cases of Treason and Misprision of Treason ) which laid down rules of evidence and procedure in treason… …

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  • 3Treason Trial — The Treason Trial was a trial in which 156 people (105 Blacks, 21 Indians, 23 Whites and 7 Coloureds), including Nelson Mandela, were arrested in a raid and accused of treason in South Africa in 1956. This was almost the entire executive of the… …

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  • 4High treason in the United Kingdom — Under British law, high treason is the crime of disloyalty to the Sovereign amounting to an intention to undermine their authority or the actual attempt to do so. Offences constituting high treason include plotting the murder of the Sovereign;… …

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  • 5High Treason Incident — The nihongo|High Treason Incident|大逆事件|Taigyaku Jiken, also known as the nihongo|Kotoku Incident|幸徳事件|Kōtoku Jiken, was a socialist anarchist plot to assassinate the Japanese Emperor Meiji in 1910, leading to a mass arrest of leftists, and the… …

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  • 6Constance Drexel — (1925) Constance Drexel (ca. November 28, 1894 (disputed) – August 28, 1956), a naturalized United States citizen,[1] and groundbreaking feature writer for U.S. newspapers,[2] was indicted (but not tried or convicted) for treaso …

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  • 8INA trials — The INA trials or the Red Fort Trials refer to the courts martial of a number of officers of the Indian National Army between November 1945 and May 1946 variously for treason, torture, murder and abetment to murder.The first, and most famous, of… …

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  • 9Hamiora Pere — (died 16 November 1869) was the only New Zealander ever to be executed for treason. Background Pere was a participant in the Te Kooti s War, one of the New Zealand land wars. When Te Kooti s forces were defeated at the siege of Ngatapa, in 1869,… …

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  • 10Pervez Musharraf — پرویز مشرّف 10th President of Pakistan In office 20 June 2001 – 18 August 2008 Prime Minister …

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