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Analysis: Crying Treason

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Crying Treason

15/02/2010

BBC Radio 4 - Analysis, Crying Treason

If treason laws are regarded as out of date, can anyone challenge the state with impunity?

Treason laws are widely regarded as out of date, so can any citizen now challenge the state with impunity? Chris Bowlby asks if treason still matters in modern Britain.

There have been calls for the treason laws to be used against an Islamic group protesting about British troops in Afghanistan. Such laws are widely regarded as out of date, so can any citizen now challenge the state with impunity? Chris Bowlby asks if treason still matters in modern Britain.

Interviewees include:

Charles Falconer, Former Lord Chancellor

Kristen Eichensehr, Yale Law school

Michael Lobban, Historian 

Anjem Choudary, Former leader of Islam4UK

Kieran McEvoy, Professor of law at Queenâs University in Belfast

Edward Garnier, Shadow attorney general

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