Sentence examples for spurious charge from inspiring English sources

In 2010, following his protests against President Ahmadinejad's democratic legitimacy, Panahi was sentenced to six years' house arrest on the spurious charge of crimes against the state, together with a 20-year ban on film-making and leaving the country.

Despite the popular success of the work, which was serialized in journals and newspapers, Liu was convicted on a spurious charge of malfeasance and exiled to Xinjiang, where he died the following year.

Another MDC MP, Douglas Mwonzora, co-chairman of a parliamentary committee that oversees the drafting of a new constitution, was recently freed after spending 25 days in one of Zimbabwe's stinking, disease-ridden jails on an equally spurious charge of "public violence".

As Mr Kim's government portrays them, the new American sanctions, directed at North Korea's illicit arms-export business, are merely intended to add weight to a spurious charge: that the regime ordered the hacking of Sony Pictures' computer systems and the threats of violence should it distribute "The Interview".

Furthermore, we demonstrate the modification of the QDSCs by depositing a thin (2 nm) Al2O3 layer before QDs anchoring to avoid spurious charge transfer at the interface between the electrolyte and Zn metal.

Liu is in prison serving an 11 year sentence for the spurious charge of "subversion," and his wife, Liu Xia, has been under house arrest since the award was announced.

His courts lock up opposition figures on spurious charges.

"There is something wrong with the basic logic of those who spread these spurious charges.

"Aung San Suu Kyi's detention today on spurious charges removes any shred of legitimacy".

A Libyan militia has detained four officials of the International Criminal Court since Thursday on spurious charges.

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