Treason and Seditious Organisations Act

Treason and Seditious Organisations Act Loi sur la trahison et les organisations séditieuses
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1st Popular Assembly
An act to outlaw treasonous actions and organisations waging war against the Republic Loi bannissant les actes traîtres et les organisations en guerre contre la République
Date passed	2 May 1798
Date enacted	2 May 1798
Date assented to	17 May 1798
Introduced by	Adam Ruisseau
Amends
Nevan Subversion Act 1798 Militia Act 1799 Treason Act 1799 Subversion Act 1800 Constitution Act 1801 Defence of the Republic Act 1802 National Defence Act 1805 Treaty of Huimont Act 1821 Moslem Rebellion Act 1883 Moslem Rebellion Act 1887 Constitution of Ainin, 1901 Notasia Act 1921 Notasia Act 1944 Emergencies Act 1955 Requisition Act 1969 Banking Act 1978 Esquarian Community Act 1990 National Defence Act 2009
Status: In force

The Treason and Seditious Organisations Act 1798 (French: Loi sur la trahison et les organisations séditieuses de 1798) is a statute passed by the Popular Assembly of the Provisional Republican Authority of Ainin, and is the oldest statute currently in force in Ainin. Enacted in the wake of the Great Betrayal, in which monarchists turned on their republican allies during the Aininian Revolution, it creates the offences of treason, sedition and state subversion, and establishes a list of forbidden terror groups in Ainin. The law has been amended over two dozen times by the National Assembly of Ainin and has been further modified over 70 times by decree of the Cabinet of Ainin.

Offences created

• Article VI of the law sets out the crime of treason against the Republic, defined as "joining, abetting or conspiring with" an organisation whose principal purpose is waging war against the Aininian Republic in a way that "greatly upsets the public order and dignity." It is the only offence in the Penal Code of Ainin that leads to an automatic death penalty. However, due to the current moratorium on the death penalty, the maximum punishment for the offence is life in prison. Treasonous organisations are defined as:
  • Any foreign power at war with the Republic of Ainin;
  • The Royal Nevan Armed Forces;
  • The Children of Allah Society;
  • The Oteki government-in-exile and its agents.
• Article VII of the law sets out the crime of seditious conspiracy, defined as participating in a plot to "injure the sovereignty and dignity of the Republic." Article VII also includes a list of organisations whose membership is deemed to be seditious.
• Article XXVI of the law, added in 1944 by the Notasia Act 1944, creates the crime of participating in a terrorist plot, defined as participating in a "violent plot to harm the peace and good morals of the Republic." The article also enumerates a list of organisations whose membership makes one eligible for prosecution.

Banned organisations

Organisation	Date outlawed	Classified as treasonous	Classified as terrorist	Membership punishable by death
File:Defenseforceslogo.png Royal Nevan Armed Forces	2 May 1798	Yes	No	Yes
	According to Article VI of the law, Aininian citizens that "join, abet or conspire with" the Royal Nevan Armed Forces, including the Nevan Foreign Legion, are guilty of the crime of treason against the Republic, although the law has rarely ever been enforced since the Social Revolution at the turn of the 20th century. It dates from the Aininian Revolution, when Nevan forces encouraged an attempted monarchist coup against the Provisional Republican Authority of Ainin and later intervened against the revolutionary forces.
Children of Allah Society	7 January 1883	Yes	No	Yes
	The Moslem Rebellion Act 1883 declared the fundamentalist Children of Allah Society a treasonous organisation under Article VI of the law. The group, led by the charismatic self-proclaimed prophet Abdoul Bahar Younan, waged a decade-long guerilla war against Aininian authorities in the 1880s in the continent's interior.
File:Nativist League.jpg Anti-Namorian Association	18 November 1941	Seditious	No	No
	The Anti-Namorian Association was a nativist group established in response to escalating international tensions in the 1930s and advocated for isolationism from world affairs and a total ban on immigrants from Namor, including refugees fleeing the Chorean invasion. At its peak in 1941, the association had over 700,000 members, controlled the provincial government of Crystia and held 12% of the seats in the National Assembly of Ainin. However, after the ANS Huimont incident in October 1941, Ainin declared war on Chorea, and support for the association quickly collapsed. Within three weeks, the association was deemed seditious and forcibly suppressed by Republican Guards.
File:Kebab Flag.png Nautaryan Action Group (GAN)	11 November 1946	No	Yes	No
	The GAN was the first organisation to be classified as terrorist under Article XXVI of the law, an article that was created when the Notasia Act 1944 amended the treason law. The group gained notoriety over the latter half of the 20th century for its long campaign of bombings targeting civilians in Aininian Notasia and later in metropolitan Ainin proper, demanding independence for Notasia from Ainin. After the 1965 Nautaryan Revolution that established the Republic of Nautarya, it changed its goals to demanding the return of the "historical Nautaryan territories" of Iberville and Concordia to Nautarya and an end to policies of laïcité in Ainin.
File:Varanken.png Oteki government-in-exile	19 May 2002 (initial) / 31 June 2012 (treason)	Yes (2012- )	Yes	Yes (2012- )
	President Rémi de Wampley issued a decree deeming the Oteki government-in-exile and its agents terrorist under Article XXVI of the law at the request of the government of Namor. The designation affects both the organisation proper and its alleged affiliates, including the Otekian Truth Brigades, Knights of St. Luther and Holy Defense Forces. In 2012, after the June 28 Attacks in which the Knights of St. Luther destroyed the Aininian embassy, killing dozens of staff and citizens, the Oteki government-in-exile became the first organisation to be declared treasonous under Article VI of the law since 1883. Aininian citizens that "join, abet or conspire with" the Oteki government-in-exile face charges of treason against the Republic, nominally a capital crime.
West Aininian Liberation Front (FLO)	6 August 2014	Seditious	Yes	No
	The FLO was outlawed during the 2014 West Aininian crisis by the National Assembly of Ainin after it began a campaign of bombings and attacks against law enforcement. It was classified as terrorist for its bombing campaign under Article XXVI of the act but was also classified under Article XI as a seditious organisation whose goal is to "injure the sovereignty and dignity of the Republic."
File:Caliphate.png The Caliphate	12 June 2015	No	Yes	No
	President of Ainin Steven Mann issued a decree adding the Caliphate to the list of Article XXVI terrorist organisations after it took responsibility for the 2015 Talonée bombings. The law has been used to prosecute "over 1,200" alleged Caliphate agents, including fighters returning from Kraq and Irvadistan, recruiters on social media, and attempted domestic terrorists.