Treason

Treason is the crime of attacking a state authority to which one owes allegiance. This typically includes acts such as participating in a war against one's native country, attempting to overthrow its government, spying on its military, its diplomats, or its secret services for a hostile and foreign power, or attempting to kill its head of state. A person who commits treason is known in law as a traitor.Historically, in common law countries, treason also covered the murder of specific social superiors, such as the murder of a husband by his wife or that of a master by his servant. …

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DDN: Dundurn Press · 23 April 2024 English

At the end of World War II, a young Japanese Canadian would stand trial and face execution for having committed war crimes and betraying his country.One of the most bizarre …

Obeying Orders 71 8 Decision Annulled 87 9 Treason? 99 10 Defence Gamble 111 11 Exhibit C 121 He had been convicted by a Hong Kong court of treason to the British Crown and would hang for it. Only history that a Canadian faced execu- tion for treason. Ottawa officials had always been uneasy about theHong Kong Supreme Court to face a charge of treason. Chinese by origin, Wong had lived for several was raised. Wong was charged under the British Treason Act of 1351, a medieval statute that was designed


APF: Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada · 14 March 2024 English

The NSL was imposed following The Hong Kong government will move at “full speed” Hong Kong’s 2019 pro-democracy protests, which the to pass the Safeguarding National Security Bill, also governments …

were the result of foreign interference. to be treason, espionage, state secrets, sedition, and • The


DDN: Dundurn Press · 12 March 2024 English

A fully updated edition of the first-ever primer on Canada’s Constitution — for anyone who wants to understand the supreme law of the land.The Canadian Constitution makes Canada’s Constitution readily …

a public Defaulter; (4) If he is attainted of Treason or convicted of Felony or of any infamous Crime;


CIDP: Centre for International and Defense Policy · 9 January 2024 English

One of the many impacts of our multi-year Afghanistan contribution was to sensitize both politicians and senior bureaucrats to the risks associated with unknown outcomes.11 A combination of events, all …

USSOCOM’s intentions, human rights abuses and acts of treason by U.S.-trained forces in these states are still fragile states that have gone on to commit acts of treason and human rights abuses. Blowback causes credibility


Fraser Institute · 14 December 2023 English

After Estonia ended socialist rule and transitioned back to a market democracy, Estonians enjoyed vast improvements in their incomes, living standards and other key measures of prosperity. After the second …

2018: 92). The charges ranged from terrorism and treason, to sabotage and espionage. They executed 300


Fraser Institute · 30 November 2023 English

After the Soviet Union invaded Estonia and imposed socialism, living standards in Estonia plummeted—particularly compared to neighbouring Finland. Estonia and Finland share much in common including geography and natural resources. …

2018: 92). The charges ranged from terrorism and treason, to sabotage and espionage. They executed 300


BCC: Business Council of Canada · 21 November 2023 English

The Committee asserts that strategic threat actors seek to compromise government systems in order to “sap the vitality of individual companies and of the economy.” See National Security and Intelligence …

interference, and amendments to other offences such as treason and treachery. The Committee goes on to assert


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 September 2023 English

take the harp, take / the Fitbit and the Band-Aid box. Fold the whole / grey sheet of sky, lumpy and unalluring / into your rucksack.A strong theme of journeys …

The plinth it’s been said marks the former site of public hangings its plaque at a distance to prevent the haunt of treasonous


RI: Rideau Institute · 13 September 2023 English

In addition, Ukraine and The damage too to the collective capacity for Croatia agreed on 31 July to the possibility of global governance at a time of multiple rising using …

Ukraine’s NATO Membership, War on the April for treason and spreading “false Rocks, 10 AUGUST 2023 information” ion-politican-kara-murza-loses-appeal-against-treason-sentence-2023-07-31/ https://www.rusi.org/expl


DDN: Dundurn Press · 15 August 2023 English

A history of the city through the lives of its leaders. From its origins as a dusty colonial outpost of just 9,600 residents to a metropolis of three million, this …

commissioner to examine persons arrested for high treason. A natural leader in the rapidly growing city, prison for several months, he was tried for high treason and later forced to uproot himself and flee to he was, in April 1838, put on trial for high treason. Morrison’s trial opened under a terrible pall


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