put on trial

No longer mere debates, these ideals have been dragged into the public square, put on trial, accused of treachery and of fracturing the nation's unity.

He was put on trial there for culpable homicide after the suspicious death of a 16-year-old boy in Zimbabwe but the case collapsed.

“The kind of a— a man has to be to be put on trial for being an a— is a lot more than, ‘I told the assistant that I didn’t like the hold music.’”

A firearms officer cleared of murdering Chris Kaba should never have been put on trial, a former colleague of his has told the BBC.

In 1999, Kurdish separatist leader Abdullah Öcalan was apprehended by Turkish forces in the country and taken back home where he was put on trial, and later convicted, for treason.