The Tunisian parliament on Thursday began discussing a bill that would define as treasonous any attempt to normalize relations with Israel, citing support for the Palestinian cause. The proposal defines “normalization” as “recognition of the Zionist entity or the establishment of direct or indirect ties” with it, and classifies it …
Read More »‘Treason is worse than death’ — RT editor-in-chief on failed assassination plot
There are fates worse than death, RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan told journalists on Saturday in the wake of a disrupted attempt on her life by a neo-Nazi group. The journalist said that she was not afraid of dying for her homeland and wished her assassination plotters understood the error of …
Read More »OSCE workers sentenced for high treason in Donbass
The Supreme Court of the Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR) on Monday sentenced two employees of the now-defunct Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) monitoring mission, for high treason. In two separate cases, a translator with the mission, Maksim Petrov, and one of its employees, Dmitry Shabanov, were found …
Read More »Russia may expand definition of ‘treason’
Russia’s criminal code could be expanded to include an article that outlaws public calls to actions aimed at undermining the country’s security. On Monday, a parliamentary committee recommended that MPs approve a draft law on the matter. The draft law envisages a fine of up to 500,000 rubles (around $8,000) …
Read More »Ex-president charged with treason
The anti-EU former Moldovan President Igor Dodon, detained on suspicion of “passive corruption, illegal financing of political parties [and] illicit enrichment,” is now facing four criminal charges his lawyer revealed on Wednesday. They include corruption and treason. The day before, Dodon, who headed the country from 2016-2020, was arrested, for 72 hours, the country’s anti-corruption authority revealed. The …
Read More »Ukraine accuses mayor of treason
Ukrainian authorities have cited the acceptance of humanitarian aid from Russia as one of the grounds to charge the mayor of a town in Kharkov Region with treason on Friday. Ivan Stolbovoy, the mayor of Balakleya, is accused of urging the city council to cooperate with Russian troops and announcing …
Read More »Ex-Kazakh security chief arrested on suspicion of ‘high treason’
Karim Masimov, the former chief of Kazakhstan’s National Security Committee (KNB) was arrested earlier this week along with other unidentified suspects as part of a probe into “high treason,” the security agency said on Saturday. The KNB had launched a pre-trial investigation on January 6, it said in a statement, …
Read More »Ex-president’s assets arrested amid high treason case
Ukraine’s former president, Petro Poroshenko, has had his assets frozen by a court amid a high treason case over financial dealings with separatists. Poroshenko says he’ll fight to clear his name on his return home from Poland. Poroshenko’s assets were arrested by a Kiev court on Thursday. They reportedly include …
Read More »Ukraine targets 2nd opposition leader with ‘treason’ case, Poroshenko follows Medvedchuk
The case is ostensibly linked to the coal trade between Kiev and the breakaway eastern Ukrainian regions in the Donbass during his time in office. Poroshenko, who heads the European Solidarity party, was a vehement opponent of both the unrecognized statelets and Russia. Earlier this year, another Ukrainian opposition leader, …
Read More »Trump says ‘dumba**’ General Milley should be tried for treason… if ‘fake’ report he warned China of attack was true
“If the story of dumba** General Mark Milley, the same failed leader who engineered the worst withdrawal from a country, Afghanistan, in US history… is true, then I assume he would be tried for treason,” Trump said in a statement on Tuesday. He noted that the general would have been …
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