Word: treasonable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...evening, Marcos, looking tired and shaken, held his own press conference. The President charged Ramos and Enrile with treason and called on them to "stop this stupidity and surrender." He then accused the pair of taking part in a plot to assassinate him and his wife Imelda. To prove that the conspiracy was real, Marcos trotted out one of the First Lady's personal bodyguards, who "confessed" before reporters that he was to have played a role in the murder. Later, Enrile angrily dismissed the conspiracy charge as "a bunch of bull...
...February 12th, 1554, 16-year-old Lady Jane Grey and her husband, 19-year-old Lord Guilford Dudley were executed for treason at the Tower of London. Innocent pawns in a plot engineered by the influential Duke of Northumberland to alter the plan of royal succession as drawn up by the late King Henry VIII, the two young nobles were imprisoned by the allegedly rightful heir Queen Mary after a nine-day period during which Jane ruled England as Queen...
...cheers and shouts by the crowd that had gathered at Johannesburg's Central Methodist Church. As the leaders were embraced by Nobel Laureate Bishop Desmond Tutu, six other U.D.F. members received a similar reception 300 miles away in the coastal city of Durban. The occasion: the unexpected dismissal of treason charges against the twelve by the South African government. Though four of the 16 people on trial still face charges, the collapse of the case against most of them was a rare victory for opponents of the apartheid regime. "The state had no case," said U.D.F. Leader Curtis Ndlovu...
...black majority. By mid-February, police sweeps had netted eleven more U.D.F. leaders. In April a 587-page indictment alleged that the U.D.F. was a political front for the banned African National Congress, which favors the violent overthrow of the South African government. The specific charges: high treason, violations of the Terrorism Act and furthering the cause of illegal organizations like the A.N.C...
Last week Natal Attorney General Michael Imber announced, without explanation, that all charges had been dropped against twelve of the U.D.F. leaders, including Co-Presidents Archibald Gumede and Albertina Sisulu. Four black labor leaders, along with 22 U.D.F. activists in Transvaal province, still face charges of treason. But government critics now see little chance that they will be convicted. Says David Dalling of the opposition Progressive Federal Party: "The state tried to use the courts as a political weapon and had to withdraw in disarray...