Word: treasonously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Shcharansky, a computer scientist, was arrested in 1977 for treason, espionage, and anti-Soviet agitation while a member of a group monitoring Soviet violations of the Helsinki Final Act an agreement giving citizens the right to emigrate and join their lamellas abroad...
...March 1977, Shcharansky was arrested and held incommunicado and without trial for 16 months. Despite the Soviet government's nominal constitutional guarantees of freedom of expression and the right to criticize the government, Shcharansky was then convicted of "treason and espionage" and "anti-Soviet agitation." He was punished with a sentence of 13 years in prison and labor camps...
...they upset the operations of the regular army. At least three Iranian brigades were destroyed in the early stages of the offensive; total Iranian losses during the campaign now stand at about 12,000 dead and 20,000 wounded. For their part, Islamic zealots are charging the army with treason. Says an army officer: "Tension between the guards and the army is higher than ever...
...captain told me that every single day the Tehran police find one or two bodies of government officials or Islamic Guards, blindfolded, manacled and shot in the head by urban guerrillas. All such bodies have a slip of paper attached, declaring that the victim has been found guilty of treason and sentenced to death by the "People's Court...
...fellow raiders were given from six months to five years, and the judge later reduced most to six months. Hoare and his co-defendants were clearly the lucky ones. Last month four of Hoare's soldiers of fortune who were left behind in the Seychelles were convicted of treason by René's government. They are under sentence of death by hanging...