trumped-up

• “The mother of a prominent Egyptian blogger has gone on a hunger strike until her son is released from jail after his arrest on what human rights groups call trumped-up charges to silence critics of the nation's ruling military council.”

  SFGate: Don Asmussen: Bad Reporter

• “Six months ago, an Iranian appeals court reduced the jail sentences of the seven leaders of Iran's Bahai community to 10 years from 20 years, after they were convicted in August on a series of trumped-up charges.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Remember Iran

• “Chen Guangcheng, a blind legal activist, has been held captive in his own home, along with his wife and child, since being released last September from the prison where he had been held for four years and three months on trumped-up charges.”

  The Wall Street Journal: China Abandons the Law

• “A Sunni-dominated political bloc has continued an almost one-month-long boycott of both the Shiite-led government and Parliament to protest what it describes as Mr. Maliki's increasingly dictatorial ways of concentrating powers in his hands and of hounding Sunni leaders like Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi with allegedly trumped-up terrorism charges.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Suicide Bombing Kills, Wounds Dozens of Iraqi Shiites

• “(TPM reminds us that Mr. Sessions got his start by "prosecuting three African-American voting rights activists on trumped-up charges of voter fraud.")”

  Short Takes

• “To his utter shame, Obama never once contradicted these slanderous, trumped-up accusations, which he could have easily refuted simply by citing the relevant statistics -- statistics he had access to.”

  The Huffington Post: David Macaray: Friends Without Benefits: Obama's Betrayal of Labor

• “You kept the president of the South-western Amalgamated Association of Miners in jail for three years on trumped-up murder charges, and with him out of the way you broke up the association.”

  THE DREAM OF DEBS

• “Blogger Nguyen Hoang Hai, who wrote under the pen name Dieu Cai, was illegally detained past the end of his two-and-a-half year sentence for trumped-up tax evasion charges.”

  The Wall Street Journal: America's Friends in Vietnam

• “Her legal file, everyone knows it, is empty or full of trumped-up charges.”

  The Huffington Post: Bernard-Henri Lévy: SOS Sakineh

• “It has never been established whether Saro-Wiwa ordered that pipelines be punctured, but Abacha had him arrested on a variety of trumped-up charges and executed anyway, along with seven regional leaders.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Nigeria at 50

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