He is the current president of Mali. In March 2016, Popular and Pacific Intervention Block for the Reunification of Mali, a civil society group filed a complaint in the High Court. It wanted Keita to be charged with treason for poor governance and lack of transparency in managing state funds. The court rejected the plea.
He is the opposition leader in the Democratic Republic of Congo and former Governor of Katanga province. In 2016, the government issued a warrant of arrest against Katumbi, accusing him of recruiting mercenaries and threatening state security ahead of presidential elections in November 2016. In June 2016, he was sentenced to three years in jail over a real estate dispute. The treason case is still ongoing. Katumbi is seen as a key challenger to President Joseph Kabila in an election scheduled for later this year.
He was the fifth president of Egypt, from June 30, 2012 to July 3, 2013. Morsi was the first ever democratically elected president of the Northern Africa nation. In December 2013, the Egyptian authorities charged him with treason and other crimes that were allegedly set to destabilize the nation. He faced charges of working with militants from Iran, Palestine, Hezbollah, Hamas and Lebanon to attack Egyptian defense forces in the Sinai Peninsula, following his ouster by a military coup in July 2013.
He was the president of Burkina Faso from Oct. 15, 1987 to Oct. 31, 2014. In July 2015, the nation’s transitional parliament voted to have Compaore indicted on treason charges over his attempts in 2014 to have a constitutional change to remove presidential term limits, which would have enabled him to run for a third elective term in office. The attempt caused protests that eventually led to his ouster.
He is the leader of Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) Party in South Africa. He formed the party following his expulsion from the ruling, African National Congress (ANC) Party, in 2012. In April 2016, the ANC filed treason charges against Malema. This came after he said in an interview with Al-Jazeera that he was ready to use violence to bring down the ANC-led government.
He is the firebrand political rival to Ugandan president, Yoweri Museveni. Besigye is the official opposition chief and leader of the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) Party. Besigye was arrested in May 2016, after staging a mock-swearing-in ceremony, following a disputed presidential election results in the East African nation. The footage went viral on YouTube. The polls were held in February, 2016 and Museveni was declared the winner with 61 percent to Besigye’s 35 percent of the total vote. In 2005, he had been charged with treason but a judge dismissed the case due to lack of sufficient evidence.
He is a former minister of National Security in South Sudan. In March 2014, Ajak was charged alongside Pagan Amum (former official of Sudan People’s Liberation Movement), Majak D’Agoot (former deputy minister of Finance) and Ezekiel Gatkuoth (former ambassador to United States). The offences included inciting violence, spreading false information and plotting a coup against President Salva Kiir.
He is a former Chief of the Defense Staff of the Gambian Armed Forces. Tamba was charged alongside other senior military officers with an attempted coup against President Yahya Jammeh in March 2006. They were sentenced to 20 years in jail by a court martial in Ndjamena, the country’s capital. In July 2015, Jammeh pardoned him and other death row inmates on the day he marked his 21st year in power.
She is the official opposition leader in Rwanda. Ingabire returned to the nation in 2010 after 16 years in exile in The Netherlands. In October 2012, Supreme Court found her guilty of threatening state security. She was sentenced to eight years in prison for treason and genocide denial, which hit the nation in 1994. The sentence was later increased to 15 years. She is serving jail-term in the notorious 1930 Kigali Prison. Her defense team and party has consistently said that the imprisonment is politically-instigated.
He is the leader of Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party, the official opposition leader and President Robert Mugabe’s fierce rival. In February 2003, Tsvangirai was accused of plotting to kill Mugabe ahead of Zimbabwe’s presidential elections in 2002. He had been captured in a four and half hour video footage, in a meeting with Ari Ben Menashe, a Canadian-based political consultant. The meeting was held in 2001 in Montreal Canada. Tsvangirai’s defense team argued that the tape had been doctored in order to implicate the opposition leader. The year-long trial ended in February 2004, when he was acquitted by the Harare High Court.
He stepped down as president of the Republic of Burundi in 2005, after leading the nation from April 2003. Ndayizeye was accused alongside six others of plotting to overthrow President Pierre Nkurunziza’s government in August, 2005. He was acquitted on January 15, 2007.
He was military chief of Guinea-Bissau between 2009 and 2010. In October 2015, he was charged with treason and terrorism. He is accused of plotting to kill President Jose Mario Vaz during a political crisis that hit the West African nation in August 2015. Rear Admiral Zamora is also accused of an attempted coup in 2012. Induta returned to the country in July 2015. He is still undergoing trial while under detention in a military prison.
