Sentence examples for charges of undermining from inspiring English sources

Some have been sentenced to long prison terms on spurious charges of undermining the regime and its values.

Despite being a civilian, he faces trial in a state security court on charges of undermining the political regime for his role in the protest in March last year.

Mr Abedini, an Iranian-American Christian preacher, was detained in 2012 and later sentenced to eight years in prison on charges of "undermining national security" with alleged religious meetings.

A court rejected a request by a member of Parliament, on trial on charges of undermining the Constitution with his call for greater political freedom, to use writers and literary critics in his defense.

Demirel's political career followed a military coup that deposed the Turkish government in 1960 and resulted in the execution of a democratically elected prime minister, Adnan Menderes, on charges of undermining the constitution.

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Speaking about the campaign for the first time, Air Vice-Marshal Edward Stringer, the senior UK civil servant in charge of undermining Isis finances, said: "What we are now seeing is that they are running short of cash and they are looking for more imaginative ways to do things.

After a public outcry, he was released and subsequently acquitted of the charge of "undermining the constitutional order".

Prosecutors read out the charges, accusing the defendants of undermining Egyptian sovereignty by opening unlicensed nonprofit groups, relying on unauthorized foreign financing, sending reports back to foreign countries and training political parties.

The young women potentially face accusations of undermining the constitution and spying against the state, charges which carry the death penalty.

Republicans have spent months levelling a public charge: that Mr Obama has pursued wealth redistribution to the point of undermining America's work ethic.