High treason is criminal disloyalty to ones government. Participating in a war against ones native country, attempting to overthrow its government, spying on its military, its diplomats, or its secret services for a hostile and foreign power, or attempting to kill its head of state are perhaps the best known examples of high treason. High treason requires that the alleged traitor have obligations of loyalty in the state he or she betrayed, such as citizenship, although presence in the state at the time is sufficient. Foreign spies, assassins, and saboteurs, though not suffering the dishonor associated with conviction for high treason, may still be tried and punished judicially for acts of espionage, assassination, or sabotage, though in contemporary times, foreign spies are usually repatriated in exchange for spies of the mentioned nation held by another nation.[2] High treason is considered a very serious - often the most serious possible - crime, by the civil authorities. Until the 19th century, counterfeiting coins was high treason in the United Kingdom and its predecessor countries
Posted on: Sun, 30 Mar 2014 00:39:18 +0000
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