An offence regarded as justifiable or deserving of special consideration because of its political motivation.
possession of a firearm as a political offence was not subject to the extradition laws
Example sentencesExamples
- According to the information received, most of the executions concern persons accused of drug trafficking and the others are for ordinary offences of various kinds and political offences.
- It will be seen from the above brief survey that the concept of the political offence is not susceptible to easy definition.
- Part of the problem comes from legislation which created political offences, but this is only a part.
- The Attorney-General is obliged to have regard to section 7, political offences, so that there is no finality there.
- Your Honour, it was put that this evidence was not to establish the first matter but it was put that it was to establish a want of good faith and also to establish the ingredient for a political offence for the purposes of section 7.