Word: treasonable
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...following day the People's Daily, the Communist Party newspaper, came close to accusing the demonstrators of treason in an editorial that was broadcast and reprinted all over China. "This is a planned conspiracy that . . . aims at negating the leadership of the party and the socialist system," said the editorial. It called the students' independent unions illegal and said that new demonstrations would be put down. As a first step in the expected crackdown, Shanghai party officials restructured China's most outspokenly liberal newspaper, the weekly World Economic Herald, and fired its editor, Qin Benli...
PRETORIA, South Africa--Four Black activists, three of them leaders of the country's largest anti-apartheid group, were convicted of treason yesterday. They could face the death penalty...
Three of those convicted of treason were senior front leaders who had spent 40 months in jail without bail--Popo Molefe, 36, who was the coalition's national secretary; Terror Lekota, 40, who was its chief spokesman, and Moses Chikane, 40, a leader of its Transvaal Province branch...
Also convicted of treason was the Rev. Thomas Manthatha, an activist in an area called the Vaal Triangle south of Johannesburg where the first wave of unrest erupted in September...
...presidency, has set South Korea on a more liberal path, a course to which the country is still accommodating itself. Political opposition is flourishing. At the beginning of Chun's rule in 1980, the country's best-known opposition leader, Kim Dae Jung, 62, was found guilty of treason and, after serving time in prison, forced into exile for two years. Upon his return, he was put under house arrest...