HONG KONG — Hong Kong unveiled a new national security bill Friday that proposes up to life imprisonment for offenses like treason and insurrection, a move deepening worries over further erosion of the city’s freedoms after Beijing imposed a similar law four years ago that all but wiped out dissent. The proposed law will expand … Read more
Russia’s FSB securities services have detained a Los Angeles resident with U.S. and Russian dual nationality on charges of treason, state media TASS said Tuesday. The 33-year-old woman was identified as Ksenia Karelina by the independent Russian news outlet MediaZona. Perviy Otdel, a group of Russian lawyers who specialize in cases involving alleged treason, identified … Read more
RIGA, Latvia — Russia’s Federal Security Service announced Tuesday the arrest of a 33-year-old woman on treason charges, accusing her of taking part in pro-Ukraine protests outside of Russia and of sending aid to Kyiv. The woman, a dual American-Russian citizen, was not identified in a statement issued by the Federal Security Service, or FSB, … Read more
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone — Former President Ernest Bai Koroma has been charged with treason for his alleged involvement in a failed coup attempt in November, Sierra Leone’s government said Wednesday. Koroma has also been charged with misprision of treason, which is the crime of concealing knowledge of treasonable acts, according to a statement from the … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave KYIV — Ukrainian law enforcement officials on Tuesday jailed Oleksandr Dubinsky, a member of parliament who four years ago helped Rudy Giuliani in his failed attempts to dig up dirt on Joe Biden on behalf of then-president Donald Trump. Dubinsky is accused of treason for allegedly working … Read more
Touch upon this storyComment Mohamed Bazoum, the deposed president of Niger, might face treason fees, the junta that unseated him final month introduced, marking a brand new escalation in tensions with neighboring international locations which are pondering army motion towards the coup leaders. A army intervention would put a whole bunch of Western troopers, together … Read more
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin delivers a video deal with, on June 24, 2023, as Wagner fighters stage insurrection. Gavriil Grigorov | AFP | Getty Photos Russian President Vladimir Putin pledged to punish everybody concerned within the “armed insurrection” and accused them of treason. In a televised deal with Saturday morning, Putin appealed to those that … Read more
By Tatiana Gomozova and Lucy Papachristou MOSCOW (Reuters) – Three Russian teachers who’ve labored on hypersonic missile expertise face “very critical accusations”, the Kremlin stated on Wednesday, in a treason investigation that has unfold alarm by way of Russia’s scientific neighborhood. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov stated he was conscious of an open letter from Siberian … Read more