Sentence examples for downgraded charges from inspiring English sources

The state also further downgraded charges against Munyaradzi Gwisai and five other activists who had been accused in February of plotting to topple Mr. Mugabe after watching videos of the uprising in Egypt.

Terrorism charges have been dropped against a Canadian, two Americans and a Libyan detained for more than 550 days in the United Arab Emirates, but the four remain in custody on downgraded charges.

Despite the downgraded charges, my father remains unjustly persecuted and his freedom unfairly taken away by a foreign government.

The police are downgrading charges against Hindu defendants, filing false charges to cover up their own role in the violence, deleting the names of the accused and failing to pursue rape cases, Human rights Watch said.

The stories expanded on Schoolcraft's "downgrading" charges and described the pressures police are under from their superiors to meet arrest quotas, even for minor crimes.

Hanad had previously been charged with first-degree murder for the killing of Anthony Smith, but Canadian authorities have downgraded his charges to aggravated assault and accessory to discharging a firearm in connection with the non-fatal shooting of a man named Muhammad Khattak who is pictured with Rob Ford in front of the house where the crack tape was filmed.

Mr Schiattarella said that the allegations – which  were later downgraded to charges related to the bankruptcy of a company – had cost him everything.

The authorities downgraded the charges against the boy in the death of his friend Sharee Webster, 14, after consulting with the girl's mother, said Steven Reed, a spokesman for the Bronx district attorney's office.

Last Tuesday, perhaps recognizing that the case had become a boondoggle, the prosecution downgraded the charges from criminal to civil, making the defendants' infractions the equivalent of parking tickets.

Prosecutors continued to insist that the pair had spent months devising a cold-blooded conspiracy to eliminate their own daughter – though they eventually downgraded the charges against Basterra, depicting him as an accomplice to his ex-wife's murder plot.

Knowing that their case against him was unraveling, at the peak of the trial the prosecutor abruptly downgraded the charges from assisting terrorism to sending supplies to Libyan groups, and collecting donations without the UAE government's permission.