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...Charged. Ratu Jope Seniloli, Vice President of Fiji; with treason and sedition for his involvement in the May 2000 nationalist coup that toppled the South Pacific nation's democratic government; in Suva, Fiji. George Speight, the rebel leader whose gunmen stormed Fiji's Parliament and held it for 56 days, had appointed Seniloli President of his illegal government. Seniloli is the highest-ranking government official to face charges related to the coup...
...Only a handful of curious passersby peeked into the Bureau of Meteorology and Geophysics in North Jakarta, where the proceedings are being held. Security was conspicuously light; police were armed only with batons. Abubakar, who maintains his innocence, sat impassively as prosecutors read out the four charges against him: treason, plotting to assassinate the President and two immigration violations...
...democratic reform. More than two decades later, his efforts are suffering a backlash - they moved Castro to launch his harshest crackdown ever. In the past few months, 54 leaders of Payá's dissident groups - the Christian Liberation Movement (MCL) and the Varela Project - have been convicted of treason and sentenced to lengthy prison terms. But Payá, 51, insists his movement is still strong. "We're the first nonviolent force for change this island has ever known," he told Time. "Castro can't crush that, no matter how hard he tries." Cuba's communist regime has rarely if ever...
Which man was fired and had a U.S. Senator declare that he should be tried for treason? Not the guy who painted an electronic bull's-eye on a group of soldiers (though Rivera was moved from the front lines to Kuwait). It was Arnett, one of the few remaining American TV reporters in Baghdad, because he offered boneheaded punditry--not substantively different from boneheaded punditry all around the American media--to the wrong interviewer. Nor were decorated officers safe from scrutiny. At a Pentagon briefing, General Richard Myers blasted retired generals serving as news analysts for criticizing the Pentagon...
...chosen a moment when the world is looking the other way to carry out a startling roundup of dissidents opposed to his 44-year-long communist rule. Since March 18, the day before war broke out in Iraq, 78 dissidents and independent journalists have been jailed, accused of treason for allegedly being financed by the U.S. The evidence? Some of them recently met with American diplomatic officials who are permitted to work in Havana. But a prominent dissident who has not been arrested is physicist Oswaldo Paya, 51, head of the Varela Project, which is calling for a constitutional referendum...