Death of a Traitor (Hamish Macbeth Book 35)

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She didn’t have that many enemies, although with an active printed gossip column, Now it’s up to Hamish to find out who did it. It is roughly equivalent to espionage; more precisely, it consists of betraying a secret either directly to a foreign power, or to anyone not allowed to know of it; in the latter case, treason is only committed if the aim of the crime was explicitly to damage the Federal Republic or to favor a foreign power. In the areas controlled by the Palestinian National Authority, it is treason to give assistance to Israeli troops without the authorization of the Palestinian Authority or to sell land to Jews (irrespective of nationality) or non-Jewish Israeli citizens under the Palestinian Land Laws, as part of the PA's general policy of discouraging the expansion of Israeli settlements.

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Such was Hamish’s fury over Blair’s involvement with the gangsters who had killed Dorothy, he had then turned the gun on him.Articles 411–3 to 411–10 define various other crimes of collaboration with the enemy, sabotage, and the like. While giving the area a cursory examination before being sidelined by the investigative team soon to arrive, he finds the victim’s suitcase and inside a cleverly hidden package. However, the prosecution successfully argued that, since he had lied about his nationality to obtain a British passport and voted in Britain, Joyce did owe allegiance to the king. John Brown was convicted of treason against the Commonwealth of Virginia for his part in the raid on Harpers Ferry, and was hanged. A person who commits an act referred to in Section 1 that is only liable to result in detriment to the total defence to a lesser extent, or includes more minor assistance to the enemy than is stated there, is guilty of treachery and is sentenced to imprisonment for at most six years.

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Similarly to Treason laws in the United States, citizens of Australia owe allegiance to their sovereign at the federal and state level. See also: Petty treason and Treason felony Engraving depicting the execution of Sir Thomas Armstrong in 1684 for complicity in the Rye House Plot; he was hanged, drawn and quartered.Notwithstanding this, some Northern leaders still tried to indict various Confederate leaders for treason, and Grant reminded President Johnson of the terms of surrender". The characters and setting are familiar, but on the whole, these new versions of the stories of both Hamish Macbeth and Agatha Raisin are more real and much grittier, The problem for me is that 'real' and 'gritty' are not particularly what I'm looking for in cozy mysteries. In South Australia, treason is defined under Section 7 of the South Australia Criminal Law Consolidation Act 1935 and punished under Section 10A.