Lèse-majesté in Norway
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Lèse majesté in Norway was judicially based and defined in Norway's 1902 Penal Code, which provided fines or prison for this crime. Often related to political conflicts, accusations of lèse majesté we
King Christian V's Norwegian Law of 1687 provided, alike older and newer laws, capital punishment for lèse majesté
Contemporary depiction of ex-counts Struensee and Brandt being executed
Povel Juel
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Povel Juel was a Norwegian civil servant and writer, executed for treason in 1723.
Povel Juel on the scaffold