trumped up charge

The defense says the current trial is based on trumped up charges.

Many of them were consequently arrested on trumped up charges.

He was imprisoned several times during the 1660s, at least twice on trumped up charges.

Amnesty International described the case as "trumped up charges after being critical of the government."

He predicted the pair would be arrested on trumped up charges.

He was later arrested on a trumped up charge, and sentenced to 5 years' hard labor.

Some political opponents arrested on trumped up charges are still in jail.

They were arrested and tortured to force them to confess to his trumped up charges.

After being sentenced to five years in prison on trumped up charges, he was denied treatment for high blood pressure.

In retaliation, criminal proceedings were brought against them on trumped up charges of terrorism.

Hoeppner was turned over to the Russian government on trumped up charges and spent almost a year in jail.

Anwar was arrested and banned from politics on what are considered trumped up charges.

Tatchell observes that trumped up charges are routine in Iran.

Political prisoners in China often face trumped up charges with only a vague basis in fact.

They will be suspended on trumped up charges.

A man has been falsely accused, a man who is standing in a court against trumped up charges.

Thoughts expressed will be seen as suspicious and some will find themselves arrested on trumped up charges.

When he called foul, he was investigated for trumped up charges and quickly jailed.

During the March '68 events many of the members of the group were arrested and tried on trumped up charges by the communist authorities.

He was imprisoned on trumped up charges shortly after Marcos' 1972 declaration of martial law.

On May 1989 he was arrested and taken to court to face (politically motivated) trumped up charges of allegedly being found with government secret documents.

At his instigation a number of people, including Dutch settlers and officials, were sentenced to death on false or trumped up charges.

Take your trumped up charges and your Stalinist terror tactics off our station!"

Masashi had trumped up charges against Fat Boy.

It was then that he was thrown in jail on trumped up charges and spent two years in Iraqi prisons.