trumped-up

Example Sentences

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Indeed at one point Sarkozy compares himself with France's most famous victim of justice, Alfred Dreyfus – the Jewish officer who was sent to Devil's Island on a trumped-up espionage charge.

From BBC

Mr. Lai has been in prison on trumped-up charges ever since.

From The Wall Street Journal

At the time of his death he had been in jail for three years on trumped-up charges and had recently been transferred to a penal colony in the Arctic Circle.

From BBC

Mark Li, 60, had been held in China since September 2016 on what activists say were trumped-up spying charges.

From BBC

Instead, they were arrested on trumped-up obscenity charges and subjected to expensive litigation before the case against them was thrown out for lack of evidence.

From Los Angeles Times