Sentence examples for withdraw charges from inspiring English sources

Perhaps more damaging to Blatter's opponents is that they have been forced to withdraw charges they brought against him in the Swiss courts alleging fraud.

A week before the case was to go to trial, Assistant U.S. Attorney Ahmed Baset said prosecutors would withdraw charges, with the option of reinstating them.

On Wednesday, however, the ICC rejected the prosecutors' request for a further adjournment, directing instead that they either withdraw charges or proceed to trial.

To halt proceedings for 120 days -- as Obama wants in order to conduct a review -- the Pentagon may be forced to temporarily withdraw charges against Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri and possibly 20 other detainees facing trial in military commissions, including Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

"It proves the military commissions work without undue command influence, and this decision puts us back on track to see an accounting for al-Nashiri's terrorist acts". But human rights activists said the administration should now withdraw charges, something it had seemed reluctant to do, to allow the option of preserving or reforming military commissions, albeit at a new location.

"That said, the only sure way to ensure that the commissions process is brought to a halt is to now withdraw the charges". Susan J. Crawford, the Pentagon official who approves charges and refers cases to trial, can withdraw charges, an action that would stop proceedings without reference to the judge.

Two years earlier, it withdrew charges against Uhuru Kenyatta, Kenya's president.

In June 2002 the tribunal withdrew charges against a fourth suspect, Milan Zec, because of insufficient evidence.

Prosecutors withdrew charges against six men accused of raping a baby girl, saying they had insufficient evidence against the men.

THE HAGUE, May 8 (Reuters) -- The United Nations war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia said today that it had withdrawn charges against 14 Bosnian Serbs.

Grant had intended to submit the video as evidence in the Southport magistrates court but police prosecutors withdrew charges against Mechen on Tuesday.