17. Mandela Was Arrested for Treason in 1956
Nelson Mandela frequently defied the travel restrictions that the apartheid government placed on him, and for a while, he had managed to evade arrest and trial. However, in 1956, he and most of the executives of the ANC were arrested and charged with high treason. The crime could be applied to anyone who worked to overturn the country’s apartheid law. Ultimately, though, he was found “not guilty” due to insufficient evidence.
