Word: treasonous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...arrested last June while attempting to legally visit China. After a four hour trial in July, he was sentenced to 15 years in prison for treason...
Former South Korean Presidents Chun Doo Hwan and Roh Tae Woo were already in jail on corruption charges; last week the two ex-generals were indicted for treason in connection with the 1980 "Kwangju massacre," in which hundreds of demonstrators were killed. They could face the death penalty...
...Peru take a far harsher view of Lori Berenson. They regard her as a dangerous radical who became closely involved with Marxist terrorists of the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA)--hiding them in her home, stockpiling their weapons, helping them plan an attack on the Peruvian Congress. Convicted of treason last week in Lima after a perfunctory three-day trial by a closed military tribunal, Berenson was sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole...
...chance to defend herself against these charges. "The whole system is a secret one, where you don't know what the evidence is or what the charges are based on," she told TIME last week. Berenson may have one chance for a reprieve. She was convicted of treason, the most serious terrorism offense, and her Peruvian lawyers are appealing on the technical ground that she cannot be tried for this crime. "It is against international law to prosecute a foreigner for treason," says Grimaldo Achahui. "You can't take away her nationality...
...secret Peruvian military court sentenced Lori Berenson, 26, of New York City, to life imprisonment for treason. The prosecution said Berenson had aided the pro-Cuban Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement, which was planning an attack on the Peruvian Congress, by stockpiling weapons, renting housing for the rebels and gathering information by posing as a journalist. Berenson's lawyer has already filed an appeal...