List of people convicted of treason


This is a list of people convicted of treason.
Some countries have a high constitutional hurdle to conviction for treason, while many countries have less stringent definitions.

Armenia

Estonia

The Republic of Hawaii government had one trial for treason after the failed 1895 Counter-Revolution in Hawaii. Those charged were found guilty, but pardoned after serving time in prison.
  • Charles T. Gulick, former cabinet minister
  • Robert William Wilcox, military leader, later delegate to US Congress

    Hungary

  • Imre Nagy, Prime Minister of Hungary, for leading the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.
  • Count Fidel Palffy
  • László Rajk
  • Sándor Szűcs, international footballer, for defecting.

    Israel

  • Meir Tobianski, falsely accused of treason during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. Executed by firing squad but pardoned after his death.
  • Mordechai Vanunu, for revealing details of Israel's nuclear weapons program to the British press in 1986.
  • "Prisoner X2", a mole within Mossad.

    Italy

  • Tullio Cianetti, convicted and sentenced to thirty years imprisonment due to the letter of apology he had written to Benito Mussolini, which saved him from the death penalty, at the Verona trial for voting yes on the 25 July 1943 motion in the Grand Council of Fascism to depose Benito Mussolini. After he was liberated, he went into exile to Portuguese Mozambique where he stayed till his death.
  • Emilio De Bono, convicted and executed by firing squad at the Verona trial for voting yes on the 25 July 1943 motion in the Grand Council of Fascism to depose Benito Mussolini.
  • Luciano Gottardi, convicted and executed by firing squad at the Verona trial for voting yes on the 25 July 1943 motion in the Grand Council of Fascism to depose Benito Mussolini.
  • Giovanni Marinelli, convicted and executed by firing squad at the Verona trial for voting yes on the 25 July 1943 motion in the Grand Council of Fascism to depose Benito Mussolini.
  • Carlo Pareschi, convicted and executed by firing squad at the Verona trial for voting yes on the 25 July 1943 motion in the Grand Council of Fascism to depose Benito Mussolini.

    Japan

  • Ozaki Hotsumi, journalist and Soviet agent
  • Daisuke Namba, Japanese left-wing activist
  • Kotoku Shusui, Japanese anarchist

    Kenya

  • Hezekiah Ochuka, Kenya airforce soldier, for conspiring to overthrow the government of Daniel Moi in 1982

    Kuwait

  • Alaa Hussein Ali, for heading the Iraqi puppet government during the Gulf War

    Liberia

  • Edward James Roye, in connection with the 1871 Liberian coup d'état; sentenced to death but died in uncertain circumstances before sentence carried out