international extraterritorial-jurisdiction
Does any country apply universal jurisdiction to coups d&#39;&#233;tat?
<p>Several countries apply <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_jurisdiction" rel="nofollow noreferrer">universal jurisdiction</a> when suspects are prosecuted for major crimes such as genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity. Among other examples, this allowed for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_Raslan" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Anwar Raslan</a> to be convicted of crimes against humanity in Germany, for crimes committed while he was in Syria.  Considering some of the answers to <em><a href="https://law.stackexchange.com/q/89019/3569">At what point is it &quot;legal&quot; to overthrow the government?</a></em> which essentially state that if you succeed in overthrowing the government, nobody will prosecute you for it, I wonder:</p>
<p>Is there any country applying universal jurisdiction allowing for prosecuting a coup d'état happening in another country?</p>
<p>Wikipedia doesn't seem to list any, but Wikipedia may be incomplete.</p>

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<p>A coup d'état would, almost certainly, involve acts or planning for acts captured by Australia’s laws against <a href="https://www.ag.gov.au/national-security/australias-counter-terrorism-laws" rel="nofollow noreferrer">terrorism</a>.</p>
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<p>A terrorist act is an act, or a threat to act, that meets both these criteria:</p>
<ul>
<li><p>it intends to coerce or influence the public or <strong>any government</strong> by intimidation to advance a political, religious or ideological cause.</p>
</li>
<li><p>it causes one or more of the following:</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p>.   - death, serious harm or danger to a person
serious damage to property</p>
<p>.   - a serious risk to the health or safety of the public</p>
<p>.   - serious interference with, disruption to, or destruction of critical infrastructure such as a telecommunications or electricity network.</p>
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<p>As drafted, the laws require no connection to Australia.</p>
